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Red Hat Network Patch Reports

Posted on June 18th, 2011 Jorge Escala 1 comment

Here is a little perl script I made to produce CSV formatted reports of missing patches on all your servers registered with Red Hat Network. The script produces a brief report with a count of missing updates per server and a verbose report with a detailed list of all the updates that are missing per server.

You’ll need to modify the $user and $pass variables with your RHN credentials. I haven’t tested it with Satellite server but it should work fine as long as you put your Satellite server address in the $HOST variable. If you try it, comment below to let me know how it worked!

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#!/usr/bin/perl
# rhn-report.pl
# (c) 2011 Jorge Escala - http://jescala.com/

use Net::IPAddress;
use Frontier::Client;

my $HOST = 'xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com';
my $user = 'username';
my $pass = 'password';

my $client = new Frontier::Client(url => "http://$HOST/rpc/api");
my $session = $client->call('auth.login',$user, $pass);

open (BRIEF_LIST,">MissingUpdatesBrief-RHEL.csv") or die("Cannot open file for writing\n");
print BRIEF_LIST "Server,Patches Needed\n";
open (VERBOSE_LIST,">MissingUpdatesVerbose-RHEL.csv") or die("Cannot open file for writing\n");
print VERBOSE_LIST "Server,Patch Needed\n";

my $systemlist = $client->call('system.listUserSystems', $session);
foreach my $system (@$systemlist) {
my $upgradelist = $client->call('system.listLatestUpgradablePackages', $session, $system->{'id'});
($host,$dom) = Net::IPAddress::fqdn($system->{'name'});
unless($host) {
$host = $system->{'name'};
}
print BRIEF_LIST lc($host).",".@$upgradelist."\n";
foreach my $upgrade (@$upgradelist) {
print VERBOSE_LIST lc($host).",".$upgrade->{'name'}." ".$upgrade->{'to_version'}."\n";
}
}

close VERBOSE_LIST;
close BRIEF_LIST;
$client->call('auth.logout', $session);

1 responses to “Red Hat Network Patch Reports”

dave July 29th, 2011 at 10:13

Worked like a charm! I guess I need to learn the rhn api

Thanks for the hard work!!! It’s greatly appreciated!!

-Dave

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