PHP Front End For Nagios?

[Jonathan Chum]

I've just started using Nagios after one of the admins just before he left
installed in our network to monitor all of our servers. My boss approached
me yesterday evening wondering whether it's possible to extract some of the
data for our clients to see if there are any outages or issues. I don't see
it being a problem though the layout of and presentation of Nagios is
constricted in the CGI coding and the stylesheets can only make so much of a
difference.

So I'm considering of recoding Nagios's front end with a template back end
for flexibility, but I really don't want to be digging too much into a hole
then realizing that certain things cannot be done in PHP which was why it
was written in C from the start. Has anyone done anything using PHP and
Nagios?

There are a few things that would probably PHP was not really suited best
for such as the status map feature, but if the data is stored somewhere
parseable or better yet, in a database, there could be some really neat
things we could do. . . What's the main role of the CGI code in Nagios?


Regards,
Jonathan Chum
Systems Developer

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