[Spacewalk-list] Obtaining report of pending patches before upgrading

[Michael Mraka]

Soham Chakraborty:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am looking to know whether/how you generate/obtain reports of what
> patches are going to be applied in one system or across a fleet of systems.
> Do you use any custom utility or script or something inbuilt within
> spacewalk?

Hello Soham,

You can get lot of interesting reports using spacewalk-report utility.
Install it with `yum install spacewalk-report` and run on spacewalk server.

> I have looked into openscap but I don't think it suits what I need. It is
> more in the tune of verifying whether your systems pass some existing
> framework (NIST). I haven't really paid close attention so feel free to
> rectify me if I am wrong.
> 
> Thanks,

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
System Management Engineering, Red Hat