From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)>
Subject: [Q+A/ADMIN] Is there a way to use Rush to check for installed software?
   Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:09:18 -0500

> We'd like to audit all our machines to see what versions
> of software is installed. Is there a way to use Rush to do this?

    Yes, there's a simple example here:
    http://seriss.com/rush-current/examples/software-audit/

    You supply the multi-platform pathnames in the script,
    and the script will check for their existence on all the
    machines it can, building a single report.

    An example of the .txt file report it generates:

Hostname         AE-6.5 AE-7.0 AE-CS3 maya2008 maya2008x64 maya8.0 maya8.5 maya8.5x64
---------------- ------ ------ ------ -------- ----------- ------- ------- ----------
superior         -      -      -      X        -           -       -       -
ontario          -      -      -      X        -           -       -       -
meade            X      -      X      X        -           X       X       -
erie             -      X      X      X        -           X       X       -
waccabuc         -      X      X      X        -           X       X       -
geneva           -      -      -      X        -           -       -       -

    Modify the script to taste.

    The script has no GUI.. it's assumed to be something only a
    sysadmin would run, and you hand modify the script to supply
    the pathnames to check for. (See the "MODIFIABLE VARIABLES" section
    of the script)