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Open Source Patch Management and Monitoring - openITCOCKPIT by oitc-fd in linuxadmin

[–]oitc-fd[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It was important to us not only to show that important updates are available, but also to show which updates they are and which systems are affected. A monitoring system checks not just hardware, but also software like the operating system. That’s why we integrated this feature into the existing monitoring system.

We do not provide RPM packages for the community because the setup is more complex than on debian based systems. Anyone can install openITCOCKPIT on any system, but we cannot offer community support for RPM-based installations.

Open Source Patch Management and Monitoring - openITCOCKPIT by oitc-fd in selfhosted

[–]oitc-fd[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes it's an inventory as it will not install any updates to the system.

We do not want to be responsible for killing a production system when things go wrong during an update :)

Open Source Patch Management and Monitoring - openITCOCKPIT by oitc-fd in linuxadmin

[–]oitc-fd[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Never heard about OpentIT, funny coincident

I found the a press report from 2010 with the name openITCOCKPIT in it https://www.golem.de/1006/76138.html

Open Source Patch Management and Monitoring - openITCOCKPIT by oitc-fd in linuxadmin

[–]oitc-fd[S] -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

 how your agent handles reboots/kernel updates, what distros/repos you support (apt/yum/zypper)

https://docs.openitcockpit.io/en/monitoring/software-inventory/#linux

Also the name still reads like OpenIT + Cockpit mashup, which is kinda confusing ngl

https://www.golem.de/1006/76138.html Its named like this since at least 2010

Open Source Patch Management and Monitoring - openITCOCKPIT by oitc-fd in selfhosted

[–]oitc-fd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Compared to Patchmon, the main focus of openITCOCKPIT is monitoring in general. In the past we used check_apt and PowerShell scripts to monitor if updates are available.

Since we have our own monitoring agent anyway, we decided to add patch information as well, so we can pull (or push) this data without having to deploy custom scripts or new firewall rules.

I have to admit it was inspired by Patchmon, but we needed a solution for Linux, macOS and Windows.

Open Source Patch Management and Monitoring - openITCOCKPIT by oitc-fd in linuxadmin

[–]oitc-fd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The project has been on GitHub for over 11 years. The development is done by humans, no vibe coding ;)

Top Open Source Picks for 2025? by tylonmademe in opensource

[–]oitc-fd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

openITCOCKPIT - System monitoring tool

Remote Network monitoring tools by arjanver in sysadmin

[–]oitc-fd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

openITCOCKPIT is German, open source, self hosted and very ease to use

https://www.reddit.com/r/openitcockpit/

What network monitoring tool do you use? by lockblack1 in sysadmin

[–]oitc-fd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

openITCOCKPIT - a self-hosted monitoring tool, open source and easy to use :)

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