[Linux-aus] laptop monitoring

[Michael Ralston]

You don't enable the ssh server on the laptop. You set up a cron to
ssh into a central server and send the info.

The laptops will have dynamic addresses after all.

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Michael

On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 15:55, Stephen Hocking via linux-aus
<linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote:
>
> Most people don't enable ssh servers on their laptops, for fairly obvious reasons.
>
> On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 13:39, Grahame Jordan via linux-aus <linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote:
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>> Hi Russell,
>>
>> Ansible will do this over ssh
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Grahame Jordan
>>
>> On 25/5/22 11:55, Russell Coker via linux-aus wrote:
>> > Is there any good FOSS solution for monitoring a fleet of laptops?  I want to
>> > check that they have security updates installed (ie the unattended-updates
>> > package in Debian/Ubuntu is doing what is expected) and that they are applied
>> > (rebooted in the case of kernel updates).  Also checking for other things like
>> > disk space usage would be good.  The data should be sent to a server via some
>> > secure method (HTTPS or XMPP) and then be searchable.
>> >
>> > Basically something similar to MS Endpoint Manager.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions?
>> >
>>
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