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"so you want to be notified if no problems occur?" Specifically I want to monitor a backup process. Not only do I want to be notified when the backup fails but if it is still running. For this to work I also log if the process successfully finishes. If I don't see the success message then ...

I've been using nagios for a few days so am not experienced at all and suspect I am missing something. In Nagios it is easy to check that a logmessage happend in the last 48 hours and sound alarm. But how can I configure Nagios that it should sound alarm when a message did not occur in the last 48 h...