<div dir="ltr">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.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 15:59, Michael Ralston <<a href="mailto:michael@ralston.id.au">michael@ralston.id.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">You don't enable the ssh server on the laptop. You set up a cron to<br>
ssh into a central server and send the info.<br>
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The laptops will have dynamic addresses after all.<br>
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Michael<br>
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On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 15:55, Stephen Hocking via linux-aus<br>
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> Most people don't enable ssh servers on their laptops, for fairly obvious reasons.<br>
><br>
> On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 13:39, Grahame Jordan via linux-aus <<a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au" target="_blank">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi Russell,<br>
>><br>
>> Ansible will do this over ssh<br>
>><br>
>> Regards<br>
>><br>
>> Grahame Jordan<br>
>><br>
>> On 25/5/22 11:55, Russell Coker via linux-aus wrote:<br>
>> > Is there any good FOSS solution for monitoring a fleet of laptops? I want to<br>
>> > check that they have security updates installed (ie the unattended-updates<br>
>> > package in Debian/Ubuntu is doing what is expected) and that they are applied<br>
>> > (rebooted in the case of kernel updates). Also checking for other things like<br>
>> > disk space usage would be good. The data should be sent to a server via some<br>
>> > secure method (HTTPS or XMPP) and then be searchable.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Basically something similar to MS Endpoint Manager.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Any suggestions?<br>
>> ><br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><pre> "I and the public know
what all schoolchildren learn
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return" W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"
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