[Linux-aus] laptop monitoring

[Stephen Hocking]

I'm used to using ansible via ssh to the machines in question - perhaps I
should've made that clearer. Unless they have a VPN that starts
automagically each time the network interface comes up, and the sshd daemon
only runs on that interface.

On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 15:59, Michael Ralston <michael at ralston.id.au> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> 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:
> >>
> >> 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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