Specifying cron for a scheduled task

[mohierf]

I declared some NSCA checks in scheduled tasks and I trid to use the cron parameter but when I set a value like 10,25,40,55 * * * * the nscp test --validate raise an exception for the Scheduler:

schedule Exception in failed to load Scheduler: : Invalid value: 0,15,30,45

It look like if the NSClient did not handled the 10,25,40,55 as the cron minute but as minute,hour,day,month ?

What is the expected syntax to run a command several times on every hour at different minutes? Anyway, is it possible ?

[mickem]

Yes, the cron parser is currently very rudimentary and only supports single numbers...

[mohierf]

This is what I supposed. Did you schedule something for this very interesting feature? At least for a list of minutes in the hour. I would really appreciate defining a schedule for specific minutes in the hour 😉

[mickem]

For sure...

This was simply a quick "first version" so next version will add some more modifiers...

[mohierf]

Any scheduled date for this next version? Any chance in the next few days/weeks? I am currently setting up a new deployment for several hundred of hosts and I would like to know if I install the current version of NSClient or I still wait...

[mickem]

I would say it wont make the 0.5.1 version which will have a release candidate in the next few days (need to run some test to make sur the installer is correct). So possibly beta versions in maybe a month then releases in a month or so after that.

However if there is something specific you need I might be convinced to do an exception and see if I can get it into 0.5.1

[mohierf]

Thanks @mickem. My only request would be to use such syntax: 10,25,40,55 * * * * to schedule on the minutes in an hour. This will allow to tun a check 4 times in an hour on specific minutes 😉

[mickem]

This should work n the latest 0.5.1 build.