{"id":503,"date":"2013-10-13T09:59:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T07:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/?p=503"},"modified":"2013-10-13T09:59:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T07:59:01","slug":"nagios-check-for-avira-antivirus-definitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/2013\/10\/13\/nagios-check-for-avira-antivirus-definitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagios check for Avira AntiVirus definitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrapped up a quick script to check whether my Avira AntiVirus definitions are current. Since it might be useful to other people I thought I&#8217;d just publish it here:<\/p>\n<pre>#!\/bin\/bash\r\n\r\nYOUNGEST_FILE=$(ls -tr \/usr\/lib\/AntiVir\/guard\/*.vdf|tail -1)\r\n\r\nWARN=$1\r\nCRIT=$2\r\nWARN=$((${WARN:=3} * 86400))\r\nCRIT=$((${CRIT:=7} * 86400))\r\n\r\nfunction age() {\r\n\u00a0\u00a0 local filename=$1\r\n\u00a0\u00a0 local changed=`stat -c %Y \"$filename\"`\r\n\u00a0\u00a0 local now=`date +%s`\r\n\u00a0\u00a0 local elapsed\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0 let elapsed=now-changed\r\n\u00a0\u00a0 echo $elapsed\r\n}\r\n\r\nFILEAGE=$(age \"${YOUNGEST_FILE}\")\r\n\r\nif [ $FILEAGE -gt $CRIT ]; then\r\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0echo \"CRITICAL - Youngest file is $FILEAGE sec old\"\r\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0exit 2\r\nelif [ $FILEAGE -gt $WARN ]; then\r\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0echo \"WARNING - Youngest file is $FILEAGE sec old\"\r\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0exit 1\r\nelse\r\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0echo \"OK - Youngest file is $FILEAGE sec old\"\r\nfi<\/pre>\n<p>The default (if you don&#8217;t supply any command-line parms) is to warn if the youngest of all virus definition files is older than 3 days, and a critical alert will be triggered if it is older than 7 days. 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