Check-Updates

This script is intended to be run as part of an ansible playbook that gathers information on what software packages have outstanding upgrades.

The script should run on any Redhat ( yum ) or Debian ( apt ) based system.

Execution

Obviously this can be run from the command line directly

or can be executed with wget to post the XML results to a processing system:

/usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null http://processing.host/path --post-data "$(check-updates.sh)"  --header="Content-Type:application/xml"

Output

The script will output the following data:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<updates> <host>
<name>hostname</name>
<engine>apt</engine>
<packages>
<package><name>PackageName</name><cur>1.0</cur><next>2.0</next></package>
...
</package>
</host>
</updates>

• engine - This field may return apt or yum depending on the system its run on.

• cur and next - These fields will show the current and upgraded package versions respectivly.

History

This script was generated with some code from the PatchDashboard project. Specifically this script