Michael W. Lucas schrieb: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 04:42:40PM +0100, Matthias Kellermann wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> anyone knows of a Nagios plugin to check the FreeBSD ports and base >> system for updates? I'm searching for something like check_apt for >> Debian/Ubuntu. >> >> One important thing is that I also want to monitor all the FreeBSD jails >> for updates, too. Any help/hint appreciated :) > > None exists today. > > It should be fairly simple to write a NRPE wrapper around portmaster, > however. > > I believe (but might be wrong) that net-snmp also has the ability to > read the FreeBSD package database; you could run a snmpwalk on the > target machine and compare that to a master package database. > > Good luck, and if you implement something be sure to let us know about it.
Thanks for your answer Michael. I will see what I can do. If I have found/implemented something useful I will let you know. BTW: Looking forward for your new book coming out these days. Hope it will be released in Europe also on November 14th :) Matthias > ==ml ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ 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