Monitor Gentoo portage

Pierre Cassimans cazzeml at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 14:38:19 CET 2008


You could use the output of glsa-check. That are the packages that needs to
be updated for security reasons, so you can see them as critical.

Nice project

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Matthias Kellermann wrote:
> > 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).
> When you say critical and non-critical updates do you mean the severity
> of the security package announcements? Ie. whether is a remote
> exploitable service and might be considered Critical or whether it takes
> some previous user account to elevate privilege and therefore is not as
> severe and only "Important" or "Warning" in Nagios.
>
> I take it that you do not mean any old package that has updates or the
> thing would be permanently triggered?
>
> I've just had a look at this and it doesn't look like it distinguishes
> between security upgrades deemed Critical/Non-Critical. So I guess it
> would be an all-or-nothing Critical/OK result.
>
> Any other ideas on this are welcome.
>
> I'll have a go at writing this since I think this is a neat idea and I
> have a lot of gentoo to test it on here.
>
> -h
>
> --
> Hari Sekhon
>
>
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