check_pacman

Nagios monitoring plugin for checking for available Pacman package updates

Install

Install using this AUR package.

Usage

check_pacman will first run pacman -Sy and the pacman -Qu to get the latest available packages. You will probably want to run check_pacman as root user so that pacman can refresh the package database.

check_pacman - Nagios monitoring plugin for available Pacman updates

Usage: check_pacman [-w|--warning INT] [-c|--critical INT]
  Return Nagios formatted string based on available Pacman updates.

Available options:
  -h,--help                Show this help text
  -w,--warning INT         Return warning if greater than INT and less than
                           critical INT. Default is 1.
  -c,--critical INT        Return critical if greater than INT. Default is 20.

Example

sudo check_pacman -w 5 -c 100