Front End Development

[Shane Webster]

I have been tossing around the idea of using a python based framework to
communicate with and retrieve desired information from the Nagios
Engine. The reason for me thinking Python is also the ability to easily
transplant the code into a GTK application, for both Windows and Posfix
systems.


On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 23:18 +0200, Yann JOUANIN wrote:
> Have a look on my project : Nagios2Json 
> 
> http://www.yannj.fr/nagios2json
> 
> It is in beta but could help you in reading data from Nagios
> 
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> 
> Yann
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> De :nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] De la part de Jon
> Buys
> Envoyé : mardi 17 juin 2008 22:22
> À : Nagios Developers List
> Objet : Re: [Nagios-devel] Front End Development
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> 
>         I have tried searched high and low for documentation regarding
>         the way a Front End should communicate with Nagios 3.x  ( even
>         2.x ), but with no avail. If anyone has a site or a quick run
>         down on where to start I would appreciate it. 
>         
>         
> 
> I'm looking for the same thing.  It seems to me that parsing the log
> files would be best until a decent broker is developed.  On a side
> note, does anyone know how tools like the Nagios Firefox plugin get
> their information?  
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>         A side note, I started by simply parsing the Nagios log files
>         for the information I wanted, but decided that it may not be
>         the correct way to do it and have halted at that point to
>         research some better alternatives and methods. 
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>         
> 
> Right, I'm thinking of doing the same thing.  I'd rather work slower
> and be more stable than faster and be prone to crashing.  Also, I'd
> rather not install anything else in my Nagios config, and be able to
> build a tool that can read data from it "out of the box".   
> 
> I'm developing a desktop application with ties into Nagios, any advice
> is appreciated.  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jon
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