System Patches

In this example, we report failures to apply system patches.

The PatchesSystemNotExist script might send an alert message like the following example:

                                PIKT ALERT
                         Fri Mar  8 08:40:01 2002
                                 athens2

WARNING:
    PatchesSystemNotExist
        Report the absence of critical system patches

        patch 109320-04 not installed!
        patch 108869-12 not installed!

PatchesSystemNotExist makes reference to the =patches_system_obj macro, which resolves to the name of the PatchesSystem.obj file.  The script follows.

#if solaris

PatchesSystemNotExist

        init
                status =piktstatus
                level =piktlevel
                task "Report the absence of critical system patches"
                input file "=patches_system_obj"
                dat $patch 1
                keys $patch

        rule    // bypass placeholder
                if $patch eq "000000-00"
                        next
                endif

        rule
                set $log = "/var/sadm/patch/$patch/log"

        rule    // initialize state
                set $state = "-"

        rule    // look for evidence of successful patch
                if    -e $log
                   && #val($command("=grep -c 'was successful' $log"))
                        set $state = "+"
                endif

        rule    // report if not found or unsuccessful
                if $state eq "-"
                        if $state ne %state
                                =weekly(output mail "patch $patch not installed!", )
                        endif
                endif

#endif  // solaris

For more examples, see Samples.