Comments on: ESX 3.x Updater Standard (ESX Host Edition - UPDATED) http://www.serverchief.com/content/esx-3x-updater-standard-esx-host-edition/ Server virtualization, monitoring, management, troubleshooting, administration, mass deployment and beyound!!! Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:09:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: ilya.m http://www.serverchief.com/content/esx-3x-updater-standard-esx-host-edition/#comment-55 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:02:56 +0000 http://www.serverchief.com/content/esx-3x-updater-standard-esx-host-edition/#comment-55 Mark, I have created lightweight perl screen scrapper for vmware patches. You can use that to do what you want. http://www.serverchief.com/content/vmware-patches-screen-scrapper-in-perl/ I need to rewrite the updater scripts with screen scrapper built in... Thanks for the post, Regards Mark,

I have created lightweight perl screen scrapper for vmware patches. You
can use that to do what you want.

http://www.serverchief.com/content/vmware-patches-screen-scrapper-in-perl/

I need to rewrite the updater scripts with screen scrapper built in…

Thanks for the post,

Regards

]]> by: Mark http://www.serverchief.com/content/esx-3x-updater-standard-esx-host-edition/#comment-54 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:51:48 +0000 http://www.serverchief.com/content/esx-3x-updater-standard-esx-host-edition/#comment-54 I have modified the wget line to work for just the 3.0.0 url. This breaks the descriptions such as "critical" on the patches, but it gets the job done. Great script and good luck in the future. Mark ./wget -O - http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/vi3_patches_300.html | grep -A 1 ".tgz" | cut --output-delimiter "ESX-" -f3 | perl -p -i -e 's/ESX/\nESX/g|s/\;?\&nbsp//g|s/\;//g' | grep "ESX-" | sed '1!G;h;$!d' | sed -e :a -e 's/]*>//g;/ $DATAFILE I have modified the wget line to work for just the 3.0.0 url. This breaks the descriptions such as “critical” on the patches, but it gets the job done. Great script and good luck in the future.
Mark

./wget -O - http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/vi3_patches_300.html | grep -A 1 “.tgz” | cut –output-delimiter “ESX-” -f3 | perl -p -i -e ’s/ESX/\nESX/g|s/\;?\&nbsp//g|s/\;//g’ | grep “ESX-” | sed ‘1!G;h;$!d’ | sed -e :a -e ’s/]*>//g;/ $DATAFILE

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