client/ext yum update notifier extension script 🔗 link

Hi there,

I'm currently using hobbit/xymon to monitor our hostmachines. Most of them are Ubuntu/Debian.
The debian guys wrote an extension (hobbit-plugins, /usr/lib/hobbit/client/ext/apt) to get informed
about the availability of updates/security-updates via apt.
As we're going to setup some new Machines with CentOS, I'ld like to ask if someone already did a similar
extension script for yum/rpm?

Cheers,

Stephan


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Re: netz-haut - stephan seitz 2009-06-03 <user-f7d6d33ad5ca@xymon.invalid>

Here's an ugly one:

#!/bin/sh

COLOR='yellow'
# strip CR
MACHINE=`echo $MACHINE`

yum check-update > $BBTMP/yum.out 2>&1
EXIT="$?"

[ "$EXIT" = "0" ] && COLOR='green'
egrep -q -i '^(Error|Cannot)' $BBTMP/yum.out && COLOR="red"

( echo status $MACHINE.yum $COLOR `date`
  cat $BBTMP/yum.out ) | $BB $BBDISP @

rm $BBTMP/yum.out


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On Wednesday 03 June 2009 09:56:16 netz-haut - stephan seitz wrote:

We're using the attached check on RHEL3/4/5, with support for up2date (on RHEL 
< 5) and support for checking that required channels (named provided as 
commandline argument, only tested with up2date)/repos are available.

Regards,
Buchan