External Command entry_time

[Scott Sanders]

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.

>
> 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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