We had nodes on which puppetd keeps on dying and we like to know about it. So I wrote a small Nagios plugin (that we run through NRPE, naturally), to process the output of ''puppetlast'' regularly and monitor for boundary conditions. The source is maintaned here: http://hg.koumbit.net/module-puppet/file/tip/files/check_puppet Patches, comments, flames are welcome. A. -- The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. - Albert Einstein