I was just talking with my co-worker about the need for us to go through and apply our weekly set of patches and it dawned on me that there should be a plugin for nagios to report back the patch state of a machine.
Granted, it would vary widely depending on the OS, but there is usually a command that can be issued that will report back what installed packages are out of date. A VERY simple threshold could be simply a line count (OK - if less than 10 packages need upgrading, WARN - 10 to 20 pkgs, CRIT - more than 20). It could obviously be more robust if the OS would report the "criticality" of the patches. Another bit of info that should be easily obtainable via nagios would be the OS version via uname. I can see where that would be handy to have on the "Service State Details" page. I checked nagiosexchange, but didn't see any plugins like these...does anyone know if they exist? ..or do I have another "spare time" project? ...or is this another one of my "dumb ideas?" :-) Thanks, Emmett -- ========= LexisNexis Examen, Inc. ========== Emmett Hogan Senior UNIX Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Outside Counsel Management Solutions === ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ 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
