Check manual page of windows_updates

windows_updates

Author: Lars Michelsen

License: GPL

Distribution: official part of Check_MK

Supported Agents: Windows

The check uses WMI to fetch the number of pending important and optional updates on a windows system. It also checks if a reboot is needed after installing updates.

By default the check only fetches the information and never raises WARNING/CRITICAL states. But this can be configured.

The windows agent needs to be extended with the windows_updates.vbs provided in agents/windows/plugins.

Check parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
imp_warn	int	Number of pending important updates to raise a WARNING state. Can be set to None for disabling the level.
imp_crit	int	Number of pending important updates to raise a CRITICAL state Can be set to None for disabling the level.
opt_warn	int	Number of pending optional updates to raise a WARNING state Can be set to None for disabling the level.
opt_crit	int	Number of pending optional updates to raise a CRITICAL state Can be set to None for disabling the level.

Performance data

Two values important and optional which contain the number of pending updates.

Inventory

One service named System Updates is being created for each host.

Configuration variables

Variable	Type	Description
windows_updates_default_params	tuple of four ints	Default value is set to (None, None, None, None)