Announce: Check_Yum for RedHat/CentOS serverpackagealerts

[Gary Every]

I agree - there are still a ton of RHEL4 boxes out there. We are pretty
strict on keeping with RHN - RHEL4 uses Python 2.3



On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Randal, Phil <prandal at herefordshire.gov.uk>
wrote:

> The latest version now works fine on my CentOS 5.1 boxes.
>
> Now all we need is a version which works with python 2.3 so I can check
> our CentOS / RHEL 4 boxes.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil
>
>
> --
> Phil Randal
> Networks Engineer
> Herefordshire Council
> Hereford, UK
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Randal,
> Phil
> Sent: 30 April 2008 15:30
> To: Hari Sekhon; Nagios Users mailinglist
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Announce: Check_Yum for RedHat/CentOS
> serverpackagealerts
>
> # ./check_yum -vvv
> setting plugin timeout to 30 seconds
> running command: /usr/bin/yum --security check-update
> Returncode: '0'
> Output: 'Loading "security" plugin
> Loading "priorities" plugin
> Loading "protectbase" plugin
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Loading "dellsysidplugin" plugin
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files Reducing city-fan.org
> repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and
> clones) 5 (x86_64) to included packages only Finished Excluding Packages
> from Red Hat Enterprise 5 - RPMforge.net - dag Finished Reducing
> city-fan.org repository for Fedora Core Rawhide (x86_64) to included
> packages only Finished Limiting package lists to security relevant ones
> No packages needed, for security, 0 available 0 packages excluded due to
> repository priority protections 0 packages excluded due to repository
> protections '
> Yum WARNING: Yum output signature does not match current known format,
> please make sure you have upgraded to the latest version of this plugin.
> If the problem persists, please contact the author for a fix
>
>
> Oh well, maybe one day it will work. :-p
>
> Phil
> --
> Phil Randal
> Networks Engineer
> Herefordshire Council
> Hereford, UK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Hari
> Sekhon
> Sent: 30 April 2008 13:46
> To: Nagios Users mailinglist
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Announce: Check_Yum for RedHat/CentOS server
> packagealerts
>
> Hi,
>
>   I've just released the Check_Yum plugin on NagiosExchange.org as the
> only one there seemed quite inadequate.
>
> Features of the new plugin (none of which are in the old plugin)
> include:
>
> - Differentiate between Security / normal package updates
> - Better output - numbers of packages updates
> - Support for extra Yum options including enabling and disabling repos,
> running from the cache
> - Optional Warning on non-security updates
> - Optional Critical alerting on any package
> - Timeout
> - Verbosity
> - Less false package alerts (the old plugin just used to misleading say
> the O/S needed updates when yum failed for any reason at all), including
> proper error feedback and a switch for lock handling to not raise an
> alert like if somebody is running yum interactively at the same time.
>
>
> You can download the plugin here:
>
> http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F2577.html;d=
> 1
>
> (you may need to copy and paste that link if your mail client
> misinterprets the link)
>
> As ever, feedback is welcome, and development will continue if needed
> for extra switches and features.
> This should also work with Fedora or another RPM based distros that uses
> yum as it's package management system but I've not tested it outside
> RHEL/CentOS so feedback is welcome there too.
>
>
> On a related note, I'm also quite interested in people's experiences of
> updating and maintaining RedHat based systems especially with regards to
> security. I spoke to a few people and they basically don't follow
> security vulnerabilities and don't patch which ties in with my
> experiences and what I've seen of other people's systems too which is
> very disappointing. Hopefully this will make it easier to automatically
> track and keep on top of security updates for those of us who have
> RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 or later or equivalent.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> -h
>
> --
> Hari Sekhon
>
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Gary Every
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