External Command entry_time

[Larry Low]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-devel-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Scott Sanders
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 2:42 PM
> To: Nagios Developers List
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] External Command entry_time
> 
> On 2/6/08, Larry Low <llow at telesphere.com> wrote:
> > This timestamp is to indicate when it was submitted to the pipe.  If
> you are
> > scheduling something you place the timestamp for that in the
> > command_arguments.
> 
> Right, thats works for certain commands. What I'm wondering is why is
> there a timestamp at all. As far as I can tell the entry_time variable
> is passed around inside nagios, but nothing ever seems to use it.
> 
> I'd like to be able to schedule commands like PROGRAM_RESTART, and
> hoped the timestamp could be used for this purpose, but it appears
> that isn't the case.
> 

Probably need to add a new option command parameter to that command then.

On a side note it seems the timestamp is not used as you say.  Anyone know
the reason this timestamp is not used by nagios to insert into its log the
time the passive alert came in and not when it was processed by nagios?

The problem is I run two post processors (SYSLOG and SNMPTRAPS) that may not
be running for some reason but the data they process is still being
collected.  I would prefer nagios use the timestamp passed to its nagios.cmd
and not the timestamp that nagios gets to it.

> >
> > http://www.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/commandlist.php
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > [time]
> >
> SCHEDULE_FORCED_SVC_CHECK;<host_name>;<service_description>;<check_time
> >
> >
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-
> devel-
> > > bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Scott Sanders
> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 2:05 PM
> > > To: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject: [Nagios-devel] External Command entry_time
> > >
> > > Hello devel,
> > >
> > > When an external command is submitted to the FIFO pipe the command
> is
> > > prepended with a unix timestamp wrapped in []'s. As the command is
> > > processed the timestamp here is parsed out and is set as the
> > > entry_time in the external command struct.
> > >
> > > If I submit a command with a timestamp in the future it is still
> > > executed as soon as check_for_external_commands gets to it. What
> > > purpose does this timestamp serve?
> > >
> > > -Scott
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