check-file-age-pattern

A Python2 & Python3 script to detect if files are recent enought. 2 modes are available

• default: at least one file is recent enough.
• all: all files must be recent enough

This project is designed to be a Nagios-NRPE probe to check if a periodic backup has been done correctly.

Installation

Download the .py file and put it anywhere you want.

Example

./check-file-age-pattern.py --warning 84000 --critical 10000 '/backup/db*.tar'

• will return 0 if at least one file matching /backup/db*.tar in your filesystem has been modified in less that 86,400 seconds.
• if not, will return 1 if at least one file has been modified between 86,400 and 100,000
• will return 2 if no file have benn modified since 100,000 seconds
• will return 3 is something wrong or no file match patterns

Note

File patterns should be given between simple quotes if they contain special characters like * to not being interpreted by your shell