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Hi *,

Configuring passive checks, I'd like to see >how< old is the last data when a service becomes stale.
The 'no-backup-report' command in http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/freshness.html does
not show that. I can imagine a complicated way around (associating a file with every passively checked
item and checking the age of the file), but that's really ugly.
Better ideas are most welcome.

Thanks, jvejv

You could always add the freshness value to the duration of the stale status to get a total.

Thanks, that's not bad .
OTOH, it would be nice to have that summed by Nagios. Is there a way to get the age of the data from the last passive check of a service into a plugin ?

What do you mean by getting it into a plugin? Are you talking about the age of a passive check result? You could scape this directly from the nagios.log file, though we don't have a guide on scraping information from there with custom plugins you could use a similar method that some of the log file plugins use.

Thanks for the hint - I'll try it.

Well let us know if we can be of more help!