Nagios monitoring plugin for checking for available Pacman package updates
Install using this AUR package.
check_pacman will first run pacman -Sy and the pacman -Qu to get the latest available packages. You will probably want to run check_pacman as root user so that pacman can refresh the package database.
check_pacman - Nagios monitoring plugin for available Pacman updates
Usage: check_pacman [-w|--warning INT] [-c|--critical INT]
Return Nagios formatted string based on available Pacman updates.
Available options:
-h,--help Show this help text
-w,--warning INT Return warning if greater than INT and less than
critical INT. Default is 1.
-c,--critical INT Return critical if greater than INT. Default is 20.
sudo check_pacman -w 5 -c 100