ControlUp API and Running Scripts on Offline Devices

A question was asked about using the ControlUp API to run scripts on an offline device. Another user responded that this is not possible and the device must be online for the script to run. However, the API does queue up requests for offline devices, with a short time limit of 1 minute. This is not intended as a cache, but rather to account for devices only checking in every minute. Therefore, it is not necessary to filter out offline devices in API calls.

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If I use the API to invoke a script on a device that is offline does that get queue up or would it just fail flat out?

No unfortunately it does not

Device must be online to have a script run on it

But I like the idea

I was ready to go look it up but I guess Eugene has some experience with it already 😄

😅

I figured it would fail but the way the request is sent it doesn’t give much feedback

Correct logs so that the request was sent to the device but the script will not run to provide any output

So there is a cache or list of actions pending for the device. But its time to live is quite short at 1 minute. It appears it isn’t intended as like an offline cache. But more-so to account for the fact that devices only check in every minute.

That makes sense then, I’ve been filtering out offline devices in my calls to run scripts, but that’s not real-time and done when I pull down a list of devices. Sounds like the backend queues up requests rather or not the machine is live, so I probably don’t need to do that.

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