Overview

This event monitor runs 'yum check-update' on systems that support 'Yellowdog Updater, Modified' (yum) and alerts if updates are available. The event monitor also attempts to run "needs-restarting" to determine if connected systems need to restart.

Use Cases

• Making sure your Linux systems have the latest security fixes applied

Monitoring Options

This event monitor provides the following options:

Alert With [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if the SSH server is unreachable

Use this option to get alerts if FrameFlow could not contact the SSH server.

Alert With [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if updates are available

Use this option to receive alerts when updates are available.

Alert With [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if updates were installed

This option will send you an alert of your choice if updates have been installed since the last time the event monitor checked.

Alert With [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if installed updates need a system reboot

This option makes the event monitor check if any newly installed updates need a system reboot and sends you an alert if a reboot is required.

Automatically apply available updates

This option tells the event monitor to automatically apply detected updates.

Include the list of available updates in each notification

This option lets you receive a list of all available updates in the notifications generated by each event monitor run.

Include the list of recently installed updates in each notification

This option will include a list of recently installed updates in the event text genereated by the event monitor each time it runs.

Authentication and Security

The account used for authentication must have interactive login rights via SSH. In addition, the account must have permission to run the following command:

• yum

Protocols

Data Points

This event monitor generates the following data points:

Data Point	Description
Update Count	The number of updates available.

Sample Output

Tutorial

To view the tutorial for this event monitor, click here.