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From what I understand, freshness checks do not adhere to timeperiods. It is simply checking the age of the last check result against the freshness threshold. There is a good explanation here in the documentation:

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... hness.html

Please post your nagios configuration that shows your configurations for this service.

Everything can be done with Nagios core. The main difference between Nagios Core and Nagios XI is that Nagios XI uses Nagios Core in the backend and has all the "pretty things" that are already configured ready to go. Nagios Core provides basic monitoring but it does take a little to get i...

Does the error get generated when you use -2 ?

If this is check_snmp it does not currently have a multiplier argument (it is a feature request). Your solution is to write a wrapper script that performs this conversion for you.

Have a look at this KB article
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/n ... t-528.html

It should help explain exactly how to configure it for executing scripts.

Most likely when you are executing from the command line you are doing this as the root user.

I suggest you sudo as the nagios user and then execute the command again and see what error it reports.

Nagios can do whatever you want it to do, all it does is execute a command and receive output back (exit code and text).

What you do with that received text is up to you. The text you receive back can have the info (user info, city, dates, mobile) displayed as part of it.

There does not seem to be a native way to do that right now. A suggestion is to write wrapper scripts that would execute the check for you. Basically emulate the functionality.

What is the output of these commands: