Plugin for monitoring FreeBSD for updates (like check_apt)?

[Michael W. Lucas]

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.

==ml

> 
> Matthias
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