Plugin for monitoring FreeBSD for updates (like check_apt)?

[Matthias Kellermann]

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 :)

Matthias

> ==ml

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