January 4th, 2008 12:53pm
ilya.m
I have written a perl script that screen scrapes the vmware patches pages and generates an output that can be used in esx upgrade scripts
To view the sample, visit following pages (re-generated every 4 hours):
VmWare ESX 3.0.0 - http://www.serverchief.com/esx-updater/feed/vi3_patches_300.txt
VmWare ESX 3.0.1 - http://www.serverchief.com/esx-updater/feed/vi3_patches_301.txt
VmWare ESX 3.0.2 - http://www.serverchief.com/esx-updater/feed/vi3_patches_302.txt
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July 26th, 2007 06:07pm
ilya.m
Project Purpose:
CURRENT STATUS: VmWare site changes detected, adjusting the script to work with latest changes, please check back later
ESX Updater 3.x project has been created to simplify the patch management of ESX 3.x hosts. It connects to vmware site, downloads and installs various update packages you choose. It is intelligent enough to autodetect ESX version you are running, checks for internet connectivity and root permissions. Moreover, script lets user choose which packages can be installed (critical, general, security or all).
Written in bash, script should run on ESX 3.x host. Please note, if ESX host is in active state - serving VMs, prior to update, all VMs must be either VMontion(ed) to another ESX host or shutdown. Since ESX 3.x comes stripped of all essential utilities, this script comes bundled with GNU wget utility from RHEL3 that will work on VmWare ESX 3.x.
Watch video demo on ESX-Updater in action (more…)
July 20th, 2007 11:18am
ilya.m
Project Purpose:
This project is dedicated to ease the usage and tracking of IP space within your network. It has been specifically written for sys and network admins. Comes with nice web GUI, gives you a general overview of a specific VLAN with many features…
Features include:
Detailed IP report on specific VLAN
IP to DNS Hostname Lookups
PING health check for host up/down
NMAP report with all open ports on IP
Screenshot below… (more…)
July 19th, 2007 06:42pm
ilya.m
Project purpose:
To simplify ESX Updates even further, I’m writting all in one web application with following features:
Automatically goes out to VmWare site and looks for new patches
If new patches found, downloads it to a local repository
Analyzes your currently configured ESX hosts against latest available patches
Gives suggestions as to which packages to apply (more…)
July 12th, 2007 04:02pm
ilya.m
Project Purpose:
CURRENT STATUS: VmWare site changes detected, adjusting the script to work with latest changes, please check back later!
ESX Updater 3.x project has been created to simplify the patch management of ESX 3.x hosts. It connects to vmware site and downloads various update packages you choose (critical, general, security or all). It creates tar.gz file with install script. Written in bash, it must be run on non-esx, preferably Linux host, to create tar.gz installer. Script must be ran on Linux with general GNU utilities (sed, awk, wc, wget, tar, gz and perl) host connected to the internet.
Script Type: Repository Server Edition -> this script must be run on Linux non ESX host.If you ESX host has internet connectivity, I highly recommend using this script.
Supported OS:
ESX 3.0.0 and ESX 3.0.1 (more…)