Monitor Gentoo portage

[Matthias Kellermann]

Hari Sekhon schrieb:
> Matthias Kellermann wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> does anyone know a Nagios plugin for monitoring Gentoo's portage for 
>> updates? A quick google search did not give any results
> That sounds like a good idea and one that I am quite interested in since 
> I run a lot of gentoo servers.
> 
> Could you please elaborate on what exactly you want this plugin to do, 
> perhaps I can write it...
> 
> -h

The plugin should check the output of "emerge -upD --newuse world" for 
updates. It's been a while since I've used Gentoo on a daily basis so 
I'm not sure if the output of the above command shows any difference 
between critical and non-critical updates.

I wrote a similar plugin for FreeBSD where I use portaudit to see if 
there are any critical packages on the system. This way I can divide 
between critical packages and normal updates and give the right state 
back to Nagios (1 = non-critical, yellow / 2 = critical, red).

Matthias



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