Check Windows Updates question

[Jon Angliss]

On Sun, 3 May 2009 13:57:27 +0200 (CEST), "Albrecht Dreß"
<albrecht.dress at arcor.de> wrote:

>Hi Eric:
>
>> It is possible that there are updates available, but none of these are "high
>> priority", so they are not appearing when you go to the Windows Update 
>> website?
>
>You're right - these update were in the categories "Software, Optional" and "Hardware, Optional".  After installing them manually, the they also disappeared from the list reported by check_nrpe.
>
>It would now be nice to have the options to either exclude optional updates completely from the check or to exclude them from the "critical" and "warning" counters (i.e. if there are no important updates, check_nrpe still returns ok, but once there is an important one, the list of optional ones is included in the performance data).
>
>Do you know the property of the object returned by the searcher interface which indicates if the update is important or optional (I hope there is one...)?  I would then tweak the script.
>


Software:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/sus/client/suclvb12.mspx

Harware (Drivers):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/sus/client/suclvb11.mspx

Details on the IUpdate interface
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa386099(VS.85).aspx

That being said, not entirely sure if the windows update service knows
the difference between a critical, and optional update when a WSUS
server is not involved.  You could use the code above, and look for
ones that have the AutoSelectOnWebSites set to yes/true/1.  This
should give you the same view as what you get on the website.

http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=2547&view=File1;d=1

That should be a good base, you can probably just modify the search
criteria, and ass "and AutoSelectOnWebSites = 1"

-- 
Jonathan Angliss
<jon at netdork.net>


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