[hobbit] client/ext yum update notifier extension script

[Buchan Milne]

On Wednesday 03 June 2009 09:56:16 netz-haut - stephan seitz wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm currently using hobbit/xymon to monitor our hostmachines. Most of them
> are Ubuntu/Debian. The debian guys wrote an extension (hobbit-plugins,
> /usr/lib/hobbit/client/ext/apt) to get informed about the availability of
> updates/security-updates via apt.
> As we're going to setup some new Machines with CentOS, I'ld like to ask if
> someone already did a similar extension script for yum/rpm?

We're using the attached check on RHEL3/4/5, with support for up2date (on RHEL 
< 5) and support for checking that required channels (named provided as 
commandline argument, only tested with up2date)/repos are available.

Regards,
Buchan
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: bb-updates.pl
Type: application/x-perl
Size: 6131 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.xymon.com/pipermail/xymon/attachments/20090603/e82fc682/attachment.bin>