Hi, I've just released the Check_Yum plugin on NagiosExchange.org as the only one there seemed quite inadequate.
Features of the new plugin (none of which are in the old plugin) include: - Differentiate between Security / normal package updates - Better output - numbers of packages updates - Support for extra Yum options including enabling and disabling repos, running from the cache - Optional Warning on non-security updates - Optional Critical alerting on any package - Timeout - Verbosity - Less false package alerts (the old plugin just used to misleading say the O/S needed updates when yum failed for any reason at all), including proper error feedback and a switch for lock handling to not raise an alert like if somebody is running yum interactively at the same time. You can download the plugin here: http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F2577.html;d=1 (you may need to copy and paste that link if your mail client misinterprets the link) As ever, feedback is welcome, and development will continue if needed for extra switches and features. This should also work with Fedora or another RPM based distros that uses yum as it's package management system but I've not tested it outside RHEL/CentOS so feedback is welcome there too. On a related note, I'm also quite interested in people's experiences of updating and maintaining RedHat based systems especially with regards to security. I spoke to a few people and they basically don't follow security vulnerabilities and don't patch which ties in with my experiences and what I've seen of other people's systems too which is very disappointing. Hopefully this will make it easier to automatically track and keep on top of security updates for those of us who have RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 or later or equivalent. Thanks -h -- Hari Sekhon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
