On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, TORRESANI, Roberto wrote:
> I need to test a service at a specific time.
> I know that I can use a plain cron for this, but, can I emulate this in mon?
the scheduler doesn't support this functionality yet, but you could hack
it by making your monitor sleep until the time you want to perform the
check, and set "interval 1m" or something like that. this way mon will
run the monitor every minute (if there isn't one already running), the
monitor sleeps until the time you want, then it wakes up, performs the
test, and returns the results to mon.
this functionality should really be in the scheduler, with syntax
like this:
watch something
service or-other
at 22:00
monitor check-this.monitor
...
the "at" syntax should be a repeating time (e.g. not tied to particular
year). it should be able to handle hh/mm/ss, days, weeks, months. maybe
it should handle multiple times, like "mon 12:00, wed 12:00", or maybe
these should be handled putting them in separate services.
