Plugin for monitoring FreeBSD for updates (like check_apt)?

[Michael W. Lucas]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 08:06:08AM +0100, Matthias Kellermann wrote:
> 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 :)

The book physically exists, and is being shipped to stores now.  You
should be able to find it any day now.

I really need to change my .sig...

==ml
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On 5/4/2007, the TSA kept 3 pairs of my soiled undies "for security reasons."

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