check_updates

check_updates is an open source and totally free plugin designed especially for the Nagios system monitoring software, which will automatically check if a Red Hat or Fedora operating system is up-to-date or not.

Usage:

check_updates [OPTIONS]

 -?, --usage
   Print usage information
 -h, --help
   Print detailed help screen
 -V, --version
   Print version information
 --extra-opts=[section][@file]
   Read options from an ini file. See http://nagiosplugins.org/extra-opts
   for usage and examples.
 --boot-check
   Check if the machine was booted with the newest kernel (default)
 --no-boot-check
   do not complain if the machine was booted with an old kernel
 -w, --warning=INTEGER
   Exit with WARNING status if more than INTEGER non-security updates are available
 -c, --critical=INTEGER
   Exit with CRITICAL status if more than INTEGER non-security updates are available
 --security-only
   Ignores non-security updates
 -a, --yum-arguments=STRING
   specific Yum arguments as STRING
 -t, --timeout=INTEGER
   Seconds before plugin times out (default: 15)
 -v, --verbose
   Show details for command-line debugging (can repeat up to 3 times)

What is new in this release:

• This version supports openvz kernels.

What is new in version 1.6.1:

• Support for PUIAS Linux was added.

What is new in version 1.6.0:

• This version adds an option to ignore non-security related updates.

What is new in version 1.5.2:

• This version adds support for Amazon Linux.

What is new in version 1.3.3:

• This release fixes a bug that prevented the correct detection of the Red Hat system version.

What is new in version 1.3.0:

• --critical and --warning are working again
• Nagios 3 extended info with the outdated packages

What is new in version 1.2.0:

• This release implements a timeout (as required by the Nagios Plugin guidelines) and removes the dependency on RPM2 (which does not work with modern RPM versions).

What is new in version 1.1.2:

• This release fixes a bug that caused check_updates to output the incorrect number of outdated packages when using up2date in conjunction with excluded packages (e.g. the kernel).

Requirements:

• Perl
• Nagios