check_updates should report "warning" instead of "critical" on non-critical updates

[matteocorti]

Original reporter: anonymous

Currently non-critical updates spawn a critical nagios state. I'd suggest security fixes deserve critical, but a simple non-security-related available update to eject or man should not be given such a high-level alert.

[matteocorti]

Original reporter: matteo@corti.li

Hi,

no it doesn't but I see that I have to update the documentation.

• all security plugins are critical regardless of the --critical and --warning options
• --critical and --warning refer only to non-security updated

To achieve what you want you can just give a high value to both (I could add an option to achieve the same)

./check_updates --critical=10000 --warning=10000

will always return critical if a security update is available

But anyway thanks for the suggestion. I will

• Update the documentation
• Add an option like --security-only to avoid having to put a high threshold to ignore non-security updates

Matteo

[matteocorti]

Original reporter: matteo@corti.li

I added the --security-option in version 1.6.0