Hi, I've written another plugin called check_gentoo_portage which allows you to monitor Security Updates on Gentoo systems, thereby integrating your security patching information in to Nagios. It will alert if there are any outstanding security updates that haven't been applied to a system.
It also tests the age of the Portage tree since security updates are dependent on this. It can also tell you the age of the Portage tree and how many general package updates available (there is also a switch to alert on any general package upgrades as this was a feature request but it's not the default behaviour as most people won't want to do this). There are various customization switches, see --help for full details. You can get the plugin from NagiosExchange here: http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Check_Plugins.21.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1[p_view]=1244 I've found this to be very effective across a range of servers and much better than having a locally run glsa script mail you as this is more controlled, more reliable and easily trackable/referenced with a Nagios interface, I actually found 2 instances at a remote site where a cronned glsa script had failed to inform me of security patches due to local mta failure. I can't believe I didn't write this sooner, a must have for all those using Gentoo I think. Thanks to Matthias Kellermann for the original idea. All feedback is of course welcome at this email address. -h -- Hari Sekhon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
