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The check_apt Plugin

check_apt v2.3git (monitoring-plugins 2.3git)
Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Monitoring Plugins Development Team
    <devel@monitoring-plugins.org>

This plugin checks for software updates on systems that use
package management systems based on the apt-get(8) command
found in Debian GNU/Linux

Usage:
check_apt [[-d|-u|-U]opts] [-n] [-l] [-t timeout] [-w packages-warning]

Options:
 -h, --help
    Print detailed help screen
 -V, --version
    Print version information
 --extra-opts=[section][@file]
    Read options from an ini file. See
    https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/doc/extra-opts.html
    for usage and examples.
 -t, --timeout=INTEGER
    Seconds before plugin times out (default: 10)
 -n, --no-upgrade
    Do not run the upgrade.  Probably not useful (without -u at least).
 -l, --list
    List packages available for upgrade.  Packages are printed sorted by
    name with security packages listed first.
 -i, --include=REGEXP
    Include only packages matching REGEXP.  Can be specified multiple times
    the values will be combined together.  Any packages matching this list
    cause the plugin to return WARNING status.  Others will be ignored.
    Default is to include all packages.
 -e, --exclude=REGEXP
    Exclude packages matching REGEXP from the list of packages that would
    otherwise be included.  Can be specified multiple times; the values
    will be combined together.  Default is to exclude no packages.
 -c, --critical=REGEXP
    If the full package information of any of the upgradable packages match
    this REGEXP, the plugin will return CRITICAL status.  Can be specified
    multiple times like above.  Default is a regexp matching security
    upgrades for Debian and Ubuntu:
        ^[^\(]*\(.* (Debian-Security:|Ubuntu:[^/]*/[^-]*-security)
    Note that the package must first match the include list before its
    information is compared against the critical list.
 -o, --only-critical
    Only warn about upgrades matching the critical list.  The total number
    of upgrades will be printed, but any non-critical upgrades will not cause
    the plugin to return WARNING status.
 -w, --packages-warning
    Minimum number of packages available for upgrade to return WARNING status.
    Default is 1 package.

The following options require root privileges and should be used with care:

 -u, --update=OPTS
    First perform an 'apt-get update'.  An optional OPTS parameter overrides
    the default options.  Note: you may also need to adjust the global
    timeout (with -t) to prevent the plugin from timing out if apt-get
    upgrade is expected to take longer than the default timeout.
 -U, --upgrade=OPTS
    Perform an upgrade. If an optional OPTS argument is provided,
    apt-get will be run with these command line options instead of the
    default (-o 'Debug::NoLocking=true' -s -qq).
    Note that you may be required to have root privileges if you do not use
    the default options, which will only run a simulation and NOT perform the upgrade
 -d, --dist-upgrade=OPTS
    Perform a dist-upgrade instead of normal upgrade. Like with -U OPTS
    can be provided to override the default options.

Send email to help@monitoring-plugins.org if you have questions regarding
use of this software. To submit patches or suggest improvements, send email
to devel@monitoring-plugins.org