This plugin pulls the most recently created file in each specified directory, and checks its created time against the current time. If the maximum age of the file is exceeded, a warning/critical message is returned as appropriate.
This is useful for examining backup directories for freshness.
Tested to work on
- Linux
- GNU stat needed.
- FreeBSD
- OS X.
Run the plugin with the --help argument for a full description of all arguments, example usage, and caveats.
The included utils.sh script is required for this plugin to run properly, and must be placed in the same directory as the plugin. On RHEL/CentOS systems, it is provided by the nagios-plugins package, and is provided here for other use cases.
Alpine Linux by default uses Busybox stat. Install apk add coreutils package to install GNU stat.
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