Alerting on when jobs succeded

Hi,

Has anyone come up with a good way to alert on the last time a job completed successfully?

Lots of our problems seem to be with jobs not getting enough run time E.G. SmartPools.

We run nagios alerts for pool utilization but I need a good way to get the information out.

E.G. Alert me when SmartPools hasnt completed Successfully for 5 days.

Something like

ISI_SUCCEED_DATE=`isi job history --job=SmartPools -l1000 -H  | grep Succeeded | head -1 |awk '{print $1}'`

#E.G. ISI_SUCCEED_DATE=01/01

SUCCEED_DATE=`date --date="$SUCCEED_DATE" +"%y%m%d"`

# turn it into a useful format.

TRIGGER_DATE=`date -d "-3 days" +"%y%m%d"`

# trigger is today - 3 days

if [ $TRIGGER_DATE -ge $SUCCEED_DATE ];
then
echo 'Hasn't completed successfully in 3 days, do something about it.';
fi

This seems a long way round a simple problem. Is there a different way i'm missing?

Thanks

Pete