Comments on: Tripwire & VMWare release ConfigCheck for VMware ESX Hosts

By: Matthijs Haverink

Matthijs Haverink — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:09:51 +0000

Hey Gavin, thanks for the update!

Just to be clear with Windows; do you mean only Windows Server 2003 or also XP/Vista etc ?

By: Gavin Millard

Gavin Millard — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:26:17 +0000

OK so I checked with the release team. They decided to only test and release it on Windows. Sorry bout the mix up

By: Gavin Millard

Gavin Millard — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:51:39 +0000

Now it’s my turn to stand corrected. Looks like we’ve removed Linux and XP from the supported platforms for some reason. When the ConfigCheck website was first released it had them listed. I’ve used it on my XP, 2003, Linux and OS X machines without any issues due to it running in Java but we may have made a decision to make it easier to support by limiting the platform. I shall don my deerstalker and investigate sir.

By: Matthijs Haverink

Matthijs Haverink — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:33:43 +0000

Hello Gavin,

I stand corrected and thank you for this correction !

I do have to say that I got this information from your download site :

http://www.tripwire.com/configcheck/configcheckdownload.cfm

There it literally states : “System Requirements: Windows 2003 with JRE version 1.5 or later.”

So if XP and Linux are officially supported you might like to add that to the System Requirements statement there, because you fooled me .

By: Gavin Millard

Gavin Millard — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:58:46 +0000

Sorry to correct you but ConfigCheck also runs on XP and Linux without any issues. I’ve been running it on my XP desktop since release and it works like a charm.

Let us know how you and your readers get on with our new little tool.