Monitoring your platform with a sentinel

We find it useful to have a special site for each platform to help you watch modules and themes updates. We (arbitrarily) call this site a "sentinel".

To configure a sentinel website:

1. Create a new site in the platform you want to monitor.
2. In Drupal 6: Enable the Update status advanced settings module.
3. Configure the 'Available updates' settings:
   1. Check mark at 'Check for updates of disabled modules and themes'.
   2. Write your email address in 'E-mail addresses to be notified when updates are available' (if you want to).
   3. Save this configuration.

You are now ready to visit the 'Available updates' page at 'admin/reports/updates' and watch for new versions, and have a quick link to new releases and release notes.

If you would prefer a centralized dashboard, you could use Update status aggregator (though it doesn't have a Drupal 7 version for now).