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Invoke-IcingaCheckUpdates

Description

Checks how many updates are to be applied

Invoke-IcingaCheckUpdates returns either ‘OK’, ‘WARNING’ or ‘CRITICAL’, based on the thresholds set. e.g ‘C:\Users\Icinga\Backup’ 10 updates are pending, WARNING is set to 20, CRITICAL is set to 50. In this case the check will return OK. More Information on https://github.com/Icinga/icinga-powershell-plugins

Permissions

To execute this plugin you will require to grant the following user permissions.

COM-Objects

  • Microsoft.Update.Session

Arguments

Argument Type Required Default Description
UpdateFilter Array false
Warning Object false Used to specify a Warning threshold. In this case an integer value.
Critical Object false Used to specify a Critical threshold. In this case an integer value.
NoPerfData SwitchParameter false False
Verbosity Int32 false 0 Changes the behavior of the plugin output which check states are printed: 0 (default): Only service checks/packages with state not OK will be printed 1: Only services with not OK will be printed including OK checks of affected check packages including Package config 2: Everything will be printed regardless of the check state 3: Identical to Verbose 2, but prints in addition the check package configuration e.g (All must be [OK])
ThresholdInterval Object Change the value your defined threshold checks against from the current value to a collected time threshold of the Icinga for Windows daemon, as described here. An example for this argument would be 1m or 15m which will use the average of 1m or 15m for monitoring.

Examples

Example Command 1

Invoke-IcingaCheckUpdates -Warning 4 -Critical 20

Example Output 1

[OK]: Check package "Updates" is [OK]| 'Pending Update Count'=2;4;20