status — force status of a specified check
status
[hostname.check color comment]
Set the status of the check called check of the host called hostname to color. Allowed colors are red, yellow, purple and green. The comment may be an arbitrary (multi-lined) text. By convention it starts with
(seconds since January 1 1970) time-and-date-in-human-readable-format
though. A valid status command therefore is for instance: status myhost.bak red (926008681) Thu May 6 18:38:01 1999 backup failed
Status messages exchanged between Big Sister status collectors usually will have "(proxy delay: XXs)" added after the human readable time, e.g.
status myhost.bak red (926008681) Thu May 6 18:38:01 1999 (proxy delay: 126s) backup failed