tl;dr There is now a command installed on batcave01 called `updates-uptime-cmd.py` to help track which machines needs updates and/or reboots. So ... I've started leading the semi-regular update/reboot outages that happen in Fedora infra. and like any normal sysadmin person I thought it would be a great idea to spend hours writing a script to save me a few minutes every 2-3 months. Hopefully it'll make more than just my life easier ;) The core part of it is a pretty simple ansible playbook that uses ansible.builtin.lineinfile, after going go to all our managed hosts and gets and stores the hostname, number of updates available, the uptime, and the OS name/version. Main playbook: https://pagure.io/fedora-infra/ansible/blob/main/f/playbooks/generate-updates-uptimes-per-host-file.yml ...on it's own this is pretty useful, as you can fairly quickly look at the file directly to see things ... but the python cmd makes it a lot easier/prettier, and makes it much easier to see data about groups of machines (also it will dynamically update the uptime for the non- history data). Updating the data should happen automatically (like virt-list). But all the data is viewable by anyone with login access to batcave. You can also copy the data to your laptop, just alter the conf_path file to point to a dir. you copied the data from batcave to. There are also a few config. options you can change, if you do this. It should be easy to setup for CentOS (or anywhere else) to do a similar task in other environments, feel free to let me know if you did (or had any problems -- or want features, I guess, but no promises ;). Python cmd: https://pagure.io/fedora-infra/ansible/blob/main/f/scripts/updates-uptime-cmd.py Some example commands that you will might find useful: updates-uptime-cmd.py diff ... See what changed, by default between the current main data and the last historic data that isn't identical. updates-uptime-cmd.py history ... Show the history, and how it's changed (by default the last 8 days -- including today). updates-uptime-cmd.py list '*.stg.*' ... See what all the machines in staging looks like. updates-uptime-cmd.py list '*copr*' yesterday ... See what all the copr machines looked like yesterday (requires history for yesterday ;). updates-uptime-cmd.py uptime 1d ... See what machines haven't been rebooted in the last 24 hours. updates-uptime-cmd.py uptime 25w ... See what machines haven't been rebooted in too damn long ;) updates-uptime-cmd.py stats 2025-08-08 ... See statistics about all the machines, as it was last Friday (requires history for 2025-08-08 to be available -- so four more days on batcave). updates-uptime-cmd.py host batcave\* all ... See the current state of a host(s), for each history snapshot and the current "main" data. -- _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list -- infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to infrastructure-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
