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check_updates


check_updates is a Nagios plugin to check if RedHat or Fedora system is up-to-date


Note


since up2date -l to list the outdated packages can only be run be run by root the plugin must be executed as root. Plese configure sudo as follows:


nagios ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/up2date -l


and execute the plugin with sudo


sudo $INSTALLATION_PATH/check_updates


Yum security plugin


Use one of the following commands to install the yum security plugin:


Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x, Scientific Linux 6.x systems:


yum install yum-plugin-security


Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x, CentOS 5.x and Scientific Linux 5.x systems:


yum install yum-security