title: Linux: Repository health
agents: linux
catalog: os/misc
license: GPLv2
distribution: check_mk
description:
 Checks the package management: age of the package metadata and errors of
 the last refresh, availability of security information (security repository,
 advisory or patch metadata), foreign Debian/Ubuntu suites, duplicate sources,
 legacy apt keyring, package database problems, autoremovable and orphaned
 packages, automatic updates, OS end of life (endoflife.date), time since the
 last package change and the age of the threat data on the Checkmk site.

discovery:
 One service is created on each host that sends the linux_updates section, named
 after its package manager (APT, DNF, YUM or Zypper).

item:
 The package manager: APT, DNF, YUM or Zypper.
