Check fedora-version

Overview

This plugin lets you track if Fedora is End-of-Life (EOL). To compare against the current/installed version of Fedora, the check has to run on the Fedora server itself.

Fact Sheet

Check Plugin Download

https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/tree/main/check-plugins/fedora-version

Check Interval Recommendation

Once a day

Can be called without parameters

Yes

Compiled for

Linux

Uses SQLite DBs

$TEMP/linuxfabrik-lib-version.db

Help

usage: fedora-version [-h] [-V] [--always-ok]

Tracks if Fedora is EOL.

options:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -V, --version  show program's version number and exit
  --always-ok    Always returns OK.

Usage Examples

./fedora-version

Output:

Fedora Linux 37 (Workstation Edition) (EOL 2023-12-15)

States

  • If wanted, always returns OK,

  • else returns WARN if Software is EOL

Perfdata / Metrics

Name

Type

Description

fedora-version

Number

Installed Fedora version.

Credits, License