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I am having some brain issues today, so I am hoping somebody might be able to point me in the right direction.

I am needing a check that will let me know if a server (windows) has not restarted in under 30 days. if i just run the check as is, it returns

OK: uptime: 1w 2d 10:5h, boot: 2023-10-04 09:34:55 (UTC)|'uptime'=813920s;172800;86400

any thoughts on what I need to do to accomplish my goal?

Good afternoon JohnFLi,

Are you are using NSClient++ on your windows server ? If so you can find NSClient's documentation via the link below:
https://nsclient.org/docs/
Unfortunately NSClient++ isn't our product and as a result we can't provide any official support or guidance for it. Have you tried using NCPA ?
If you are willing to try NCPA here is a link regarding information about it:
https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/

I have nsClient++ and NCPA installed (in process of migrating to ncpa)

if you know how to have ncpa check for uptime, please let me know.

Good morning JohnFLi,

I created a new check command in the core config manager. This is the command I created:
$USER1$/check_ncpa.py -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -t $_HOSTTOKEN$ -M $ARG1$ $ARG2$
From there I created a service using the check command I just created
$ARG1$: 'system/uptime'
$ARG2$: -c 2592000 -w 2419200
The warning is at the 28th day, while the critical is at the 30th day. You can change those (time in seconds) as you see fit for your alerting desires.
I then created a free variable in the host I wanted to monitor called _token and gave it the value of the NCPA token for that machine. If you only use one token for everything or only have one machine you can just put in your token instead of $_HOSTTOKEN$

If you have anymore questions please feel free to reach out

Sorry for the delay...

Thank you for your assistance on this.