What is getinsights?

It's a small python tool (getinsights.py) which allows you to get Red Hat Insights information locally in a shell on your Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 server.

Contributing

Please send me pull request if you can improve this tool. Design priciple is: Try to extract as much information as possible, locally.

Install and run getinsights

Installation

Download getinsights to your system:

# wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mglantz/getinsights/main/getinsights.py -O /usr/local/sbin/getinsights

Set correct permissions

chmod a+rx /usr/local/sbin/getinsights

About running getinsights

# getinsights --help

Example use-cases

Here's a list of example use-cases.

Using the tool for monitoring purposes.

Consider using https://github.com/mglantz/get_insight instead. This tool was designed for that specific purpose.

Check all Red Hat Insights issues for your system.

getinsights

Check all Red Hat Insights security issues for your systems.

# getinsights --sec

Check all Red Hat Insights availability issues for your systems.

# getinsights --avail

Check all Red Hat Insights stability issues for your systems.

# getinsights --stab

Check all Red Hat Insights performance issues for your systems.

# getinsights --perf

Example output:

# getinsights
Rule_id:     hardening_yum|HARDENING_YUM_GPG_3RD_6
Rule type:   Security
Summary:     Recommended security practices for configuring yum repositories are not being followed. Package verification is
disabled for third-party yum repositories. Verification ensures that packages have not been altered from original
source.

Description: Recommended security practices for configuring yum repositories are not being followed. Package verification is
disabled for yum repositories. Verification ensures that packages have not been altered from original
source. The current settings might be required by your use case or needed for your other software configurations.
However, any deviation from the recommended practices should be carefully considered.

Red Hat recommends that you review the yum settings for all your reported servers, revise them, and leave detected,
potentially problematic settings only where necessary.

Impact:      Decreased Security
Likelihood:  1
Total risk:  1
Needs reboot: False
Publish date: 2017-11-02T12:00:00Z
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Rule_id:     decreased_vm_network_performance|VHOST_NET_KERNEL_MODULE_NOT_LOADED
Rule type:   Performance
Summary:     VM network performance is decreased when the vhost_net kernel feature is not enabled.

Description: The `vhost_net` kernel module is used to accelerate the Host kernel using the `virtio-net` module. If it is **not loaded**, the VM network performance is decreased.

Impact:      Network Performance Loss
Likelihood:  4
Total risk:  3
Needs reboot: False
Publish date: 2020-09-26T06:20:00Z
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Red Hat Insights found: Total issues: 2. Security issues: 1. Availability issues: 0. Stability issues: 0. Performance issues: 1

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