nagios.cmd write order (cronological?)

[Patrick Morris]

On Wed, 09 Aug 2006, Marcel Mitsuto Fucatu Sugano wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Nagios 2.5, SuSE9.3.
> Syslog-ng 1.6.8.
> 
> I am configuring some passive checks to be transported by syslog-ng.
> 
> So i've configured syslog to write directly to nagios.cmd. Everything
> working fine, but as we are receiving check results from diferent
> distributed nagios servers, I wonder if whether or not msgs written at
> nagios.cmd has to be cronological. I mean, if some distributed server
> lost the synchronization with ntp, and the epoch time of one msg gets
> written to the nagios pipe with a timestamp lower than the one before
> that, will Nagios drop the delayed check result? 
> 
> Thanks for any comments on this matter.

Timestamps are important, but the order isn't.

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Patrick Morris
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