API questions about Nagios

[Zhan Zhaohua]

Thank you for the answer, Martin
I got it.

--- Jason Martin <jhmartin at toger.us> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 07:51:37PM -0700, Zhan
> Zhaohua wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >     I'm a new guy of nagios, I have some API
> questions
> > about nagios, would you please to help me.
> > 
> > 1.I know the Snort is writed in C. Does it
> > have C/C++ API?
> Well, this is Nagios, not Snort. Assuming you meant
> Nagios, no, there
> isn't any sort of C/C++/Java API. Nagios uses the
> standard UNIX
> API, which is to say executing commands w/command
> line arguments
> as the 'input' and reading STDOUT and the return
> code as the
> 'output'. Nagios also reads text commands through a
> named pipe.
> 
> The commands it executes can be in
> C/C++/ObjC/Fortran/Java
> (may be slow due to instantiating the jvm every
> time)/Perl (same
> kind of problem)/Python (not so bad).
> 
> The reporting aspect does have a C API, but it is
> not well
> documented yet. It is called the 'event broker'.
> However it is
> primarily a write-only mechanism.
> 
> -Jason Martin
> -- 
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