Spacecmd or Other Options
Hi
I am in need of a report that will list the description of any outstanding errata.
Hoping spacecmd or something else can achieve this.
Thakns
Responses
Guru
6863 points
Hi Paul - when you mention "outstanding errata" - do you mean the outstanding errata of a single system?
You could create a for loop to poll for your systems, then display the details for each errata listed. Here is an example command though.
# spacecmd errata_details RHBA-2013:1153
INFO: Connected to https://localhost/rpc/api as satadmin
Name: RHBA-2013:1153
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Issue Date: 8/13/13
its for multiple systems.
was hoping for an easier way to go through all the errata and getting the description of each one (this is for a report to help get errata approved by management)
Guru
6863 points
I'm having a tough time figuring this one out (I am certain someone has done this already ;-)
One issue I am running in to, not all the Errata seems to have output from the errata_details
for ERR in `spacecmd system_listerrata pdadm01.company.com | grep ^RH | awk '{ print $1 }'`
do
echo $ERR
spacecmd errata_details ${ERR} | sed -n '/Description/,/CVEs/p' |grep -v ^CVEs
echo
done
Which would output something like (text between the phrase "Description" and "CVEs"
RHSA-2013:1156
INFO: Connected to https://localhost/rpc/api as satadmin
Description
-----------
The Apache HTTP Server is a popular web server. A flaw was found in
the way the mod_dav module of the Apache HTTP Server handled merge
requests. An attacker could use this flaw to send a crafted merge
request that contains URIs that are not configured for DAV, causing
the httpd child process to crash. (CVE-2013-1896) All httpd users
should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported
patch to correct this issue. After installing the updated packages,
the httpd daemon will be restarted automatically.
I hope to have an update and much better way to combat this problem.
Hi Paul,
You can also try spacewalk-report command with new features released in Red Hat Satellite v 5.6
spacewalk-report errata-systems
advisory,server_id,profile_name,hostname,ip_address,ipv6_address
RHBA-2011:0172,1000010006,server1.example.com,server1.example.com,xx.xx.xx.xx,
.
.
Hope this helps you,
Regards,
Ashish
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