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Hi,

We are trying to monitor files that are not updated from 10 minutes using check_files plugin.

We are using below command
/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H XXXXX -p 5666 -t 30 -c check_files -a path="E:\\Applications\\RTGF\\RTGFPolling\\Logs" pattern="`date +%Y%m%d`-RGTFLog.txt" "filter=written < -10m" 'critical=count>0' top-syntax='${status}: ${problem_count}/${count} files' 'empty-state=OK'

We are receiving alert with UNKNOWN state if no file older than 10 minutes.

Is it possible to get alert with OK state instead of UNKNOWN state ?

I think you need to change to

I think you may have to move the quotes in the pattern section to get the command to work, try this example and see if this works for you. Please post the full output.

If it still fails, run the following and post the output so we know the version of the NSClient you are running.

We tried with below command and it seems to be working for now.

/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H XXXX -p 5666 -t 30 -c check_files -a path='E:\\Applications\\RTGF\\RTGFPolling\\Logs' "pattern=`date +%Y%m%d`-RGTFLog.txt" 'filter=written < -5m' 'critical=count>0' 'empty-state=ok' top-syntax='${status}: ${problem_count}/${count} files'

Excellent. glad it is working, going to lock this thread.