Monitoring available Windows Updates

This is a quick method to log available updates for windows hosts.

Create a VBScript to print number of available updates, in this example we save it to c:\zabbix\wu\getnumupdates.vbs

Set updateSession = CreateObject(“Microsoft.Update.Session”) Set updateSearcher = updateSession.CreateupdateSearcher() Set searchResult = updateSearcher.Search(””) wscript.echo searchResult.Updates.Count

Add the following line to zabbix_agentd.conf: UserParameter=wua.getnumupdates,%systemroot%\system32\cscript.exe /nologo c:\zabbix\wu\getnumupdates.vbs
Done!

You can now use wua.getnumupdates[] to monitor available updates for your monitored windows hosts.

Discussion

Logicwrath, 2010/06/03 08:00

I had trouble getting this script to work. Try this:

Set updateSession = CreateObject(“Microsoft.Update.Session”) Set updateSearcher = updateSession.CreateupdateSearcher() Set searchResult = _ updateSearcher.Search(“IsInstalled=0 and Type='Software'”) WScript.Echo searchResult.Updates.Count

If you only want critical updates try changing this line: updateSearcher.Search(“IsAssigned=1 and IsHidden=0 and IsInstalled=0 and Type='Software'”)