[HLUG] Open Source Software/Network audit tool

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Quoting Julian Robbins <joolsr1 at gmail.com>:
>> What are you trying to achieve? Is it just a software audit?
>>
>
> yes more or less. I've seen ocsinventory but it is a bit heavy duty for us
> really

Fair enough.

I've seen custom systems in the past where a script is run as part of  
the user's logon-script under windows that logs back to a centralised  
file/database, there's no reason why you couldn't do the same on Linux  
using bash and ssh...

The alternative is to use GroupPolicies under Windows and something  
like Puppet on Linux to ensure that only the software that you need is  
installed and nothing else can be added

You could also look at ossec or similar and use that to send emails  
whenever new software is installed?

Kind regards,

Matt
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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
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