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## Name

status — force status of a specified check

## Synopsis

`status` [hostname.check color comment]

## Description

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

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