Our VI3 setup has grown quite large, and hand picking patches has become too time consuming. While there are several processes out there to programatically apply a list of patches to a running ESX server, they all start with 'pull the patches to a local depot'. I've written a kludge perl script that does this by parsing the page at:
http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/vi3_patches.html
It was a quick hack, but gets the job done, basically looking at what we already have inside the firewall and pulling any new patches since last night. Soon this page will have patches for 3.0.2 and my script will break., again. 
Is there somewhere on vmware.com to pull a list of VI3 patches in a format that's easily parsed by a script? Ideally it would be something along the lines of:
PatchID ESX_Version Date Severity
eg.
1000039 3.0.1 07/09/07 Critical
3616065 3.0.0 03/29/07 Security
Separators/date format/etc. 100% up to VMWare, just so they are known.
Apologies if this is a FAQ, I might have searched the forums and googled poorly.
Best Regards,
Lee
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