problem with check_yum

[Hari Sekhon]

Seth Simmons wrote:
>
> I’m running nagios 3.0.6 and using check_yum on my red hat/centos boxes.
>
> Today I’ve had all my centos boxes show yum warnings about needed 
> updates; found out centos 5.3 was released.
>
> I have one red hat 5.2 box. The problem is, check_yum within nagios 
> shows ‘o/s is up to date’ as of last check (10 min ago).
>
> If I run it manually from the machine, it gives a warning that updates 
> are needed (verified through yum and rhn).
>
> How can nagios be reporting that yum is ok when it isn’t?
>
Fyi, see

http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F2577.html;d=1

for a better check_yum plugin. I wrote it, the one you are using really 
was too primitive I thought...

I've not seen this behaviour with this plugin, but it gives better 
visibility on how many updates, whether they are security or just 
regular non-critical updates etc...
There is also a note about update check reliability when running as a 
non root user.

-h

-- 
Hari Sekhon
Always open to interesting opportunities
http://www.linkedin.com/in/harisekhon


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