nagios-plugins/check_package_updates/check_package_updates

#!/usr/bin/python
#
# Copyright 2013, Tomas Edwardsson <tommi@tommi.org>
#
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from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
from pynag.Plugins import PluginHelper, unknown, ok
from collections import defaultdict
known_types = ['Enhancement', 'Normal', 'Bug fix', 'Security']


def main():
    p = PluginHelper()
    p.parse_arguments()
    p.status(ok)

    total_updates = 0
    pkg_updates = {}
    try:
        total_updates, pkg_updates = pkcon_get_updates()
    except Exception, e:
        p.add_summary("Error: " + e.message)
        p.status(unknown)
        p.exit()

    p.add_summary("Total: %i, " % total_updates +
                  ", ".join(["%s: %i" % (x, len(pkg_updates[x])) for x in pkg_updates.keys()]))
    p.add_metric("total", total_updates)
    for update_type in pkg_updates:
        p.add_metric(update_type.lower(), len(pkg_updates[update_type]))
        if len(pkg_updates[update_type]):
            p.add_long_output(update_type)
            for pkg in pkg_updates[update_type]:
                p.add_long_output("  %s" % pkg)

    p.check_all_metrics()
    p.exit()


def pkcon_get_updates():
    """
    Fetches all package updates and returns a tuple containing:
        total_updates,
        dictionary where the type of update is the key and the value is a array of package names.

    :return: { "Bug fix": [ "pkg-1.0.1", "anthr-pkg-3.1.4" ], "Security": [ "pkg2-2.1.1" ],
    """
    update_types = defaultdict(list)
    for t in known_types:
        update_types[t] = []

    stdout = ""
    stderr = ""
    rc = 255
    try:
        p = Popen(["pkcon", "get-updates"], stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
        stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
        rc = p.wait() >> 8
    except OSError, e:
        if e.errno == 2:
            raise Exception("%s - PackageKit not installed?" % e.strerror)

    total_updates = 0
    results_section = False
    for line in stdout.splitlines():
        if not line:
            continue
        if line.startswith("There are no updates"):
            continue
        if results_section is False and line == "Results:":
            results_section = True
        elif results_section:
            update_type = line[:13].strip()
            update_package = line[13:].strip()

            update_types[update_type].append(update_package)
            total_updates += 1

    if rc > 0:
        raise Exception(
            "pkcon returned non zero return code %i, output:\n%s\nstderr output:\n%s" % (rc, stdout, stderr))
    if results_section is False:
        raise Exception("pkcon returned no 'Results:' section. Output of pkcon command:\n" + stdout)

    return total_updates, update_types


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()