check_yum

I had to add some fix to this scipt:
in line 304 the is a "limit":
if len(output) > number_total_updates + 25 / OR 25000:
I had to change this value to 50000: because output from
yum --security check-update has about 29000 lines.

I had to add some fix to this scipt:
in line 304 the is a "limit":
if len(output) > number_total_updates + 25:
I had to change this value to 25000: because output from yum --security check_update has about 23000 lines.

Worked perfectly until yesterday; I use it with -C --all-updates on Amazon AWS.

As of now it returns "Cannot find summary line in YUM output. Please make sure you have upgraded to the latest version of this plugin. If the problem persists, please contact the author for a fix" and this I am doing now.

What I'd love it to parse is these lines:

sudo yum --security check-update -v
...
There are 40 total update(s) available
Security: kernel-3.2.39-6.88.amzn1.i686 is an installed security update
Security: kernel-3.2.38-5.48.amzn1.i686 is the currently running version
...

Would you be so kind and check if you can include that?

I download this plugin in revision 0.7.2 :
http://opensource.is/trac/browser/nagios-plugins/check_yum/

All works

there is a 0.7.3 but i don't test it ...

Thanks

This version seems to be also patched for RHEL6, but a bit differently than the patch below.

http://opensource.ok.is/trac/browser/nagios-plugins/check_yum/check_yum

Augmenting the excellent advice of the previous poster, here is a small diff against check_yum 0.7.1 which will allow the script to continue working with CentOS 5 while also making it compatible with the yum output format of CentOS 6:

*** check_yum.old 2012-03-18 18:58:12.000000000 +0100
--- check_yum 2012-03-18 18:57:36.000000000 +0100
***************
*** 318,326 ****
output = self.run(cmd)

re_security_summary =
! re.compile("Needed d+ of d+ packages, for security")
re_no_security_updates_available =
! re.compile("No packages needed, for security, d+ available")
summary_line_found = False
for line in output:
if re_no_security_updates_available.match(line):
--- 318,326 ----
output = self.run(cmd)

re_security_summary =
! re.compile("Needed d+ of d+ packages,? for security")
re_no_security_updates_available =
! re.compile("No packages needed,? for security[;,] d+ (packages )?available")
summary_line_found = False
for line in output:
if re_no_security_updates_available.match(line):

I was able to run this properly on Centos 6 with selinux enabled.
I wrote a blog post[1] about how I created the policy and the source of the policy, so anyone can build it.

[1] http://codeforthesoul.blogspot.com/2012/02/selinux-policy-to-run-checkyum.html

@antonio7 this issue is caused by Selinux.

Configure Selinux on your box or disable it in /etc/sysconfig/selinux if it is applicable in your environment.

Hello,
Thank you for this great plugin but, when I use it with RHEL6 systems, it give me errors
UNKNOWN: Security plugin for yum is required. Try to 'yum install yum-security' and then re-run this plugin. Alternatively, to just alert on any update which does not require the security plugin, try --all-updates even with installing the required package.
and in some other RHEL6 systems it give me

YUM WARNING: Cannot find summary line in yum output. Please make sure you have upgraded to the latest version of this plugin. If the problem persists, please contact the author for a fix

Thanks

I reviewed this scripts code and tested on several sandbox servers. I then implemented it on multiple CentOS 5.x environments with no problems. This plugin is definitely helpful with quickly pinpointing servers that haven't been patched.

Additionally, I have it only checking every 24 hours, and have alerting turned off except business hours.
Here is our service definition:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
define service{
use generic-service
host_name hosta,hostb,hostc
max_check_attempts 3
normal_check_interval 1440
retry_check_interval 120
notification_interval 1440
notification_period workhours
service_description Check_Linux_Updates
check_command check_nrpe!check_yum
}

After upgrade from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0 check_yum stopped to work.
It looks like NRPE is running in some kind of chrooted environment.
That's why Check_Yum can not find executable /usr/bin/yum and fails.

When running the check_yum plugin on Fedora 13 machines, there is a good chance you will come up with this error:

YUM WARNING: Cannot find summary line in yum output. Please make sure you have upgraded to the latest version of this plugin. If the problem persists, please contact the author for a fix


Luckily there is a simple reason for this. The good folks at Fedora just decided to change some words around in the summary output. However, this throws the plugin for a loop since it's looking for specfic text to indicate the summary output (and determine what updates are potentially available). Solution for this is to just change the text so that it matches the summary output of yum on Fedora 13 servers:


On line 323 of the check_yum plugin:


Replace this text:

No packages needed, for security, d+ available

With this:

No packages needed for security; d+ packages available