Is NPush ready for use?

[fao]

We currently have 500+ monitored hosts using NRPE v2.12 to perform the service checks. Can we use NPush to deploy remotely NRPE v2.14 to all clients?

[scottwilkerson]

NPush isn't available yey, but I can comment on the request.

When NPush is released it will be able to push software to Windows machines, NOT *nix servers

Most people use other tools for this such as Puppet.

[vAJ]

Or Spacewalk.

Our Linux admin was not happy that NRPE rpm had GCC bundled. We do not allow compilers on production systems. He rebuilt his own rpms and pushes them with Spacewalk as part of the server build.

[sreinhardt]

Yes spacewalk would work as well. Hmm is this a distribution rpm or one that we are providing? You would be correct that our tar package does need gcc and such to be installed as it builds from source. Your linux admin sounds like he did exactly what I would have suggested!

[vAJ]

Yes, I meant your distributed tar package.

Given that we're monitoring Apache and Drupal, we're already making custom configs for NRPE. This way, it's standardized and easily distributed.

I will pass along the complement to Tony. He loves a little ego boost now & then.

[sreinhardt]

Yep, its just not worth creating static binaries for every possible distro, when building them internally and distributing is fairly easy. Hopefully you post the plugins on exchange, never hurts to have some more apache stuff out there! I'll go ahead and close this up since scott answered your question before.