External commands to retrieve current status?

[Marc Powell]

On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:27 AM, Eddie wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> External commands seem to be mostly for changing and updating. Are
> there similar commands to check the current stats on a given service?

No. External commands are one-way and have no way of returning output.

[script names snipped]

> It's a little messy and is likely to break if the
> layout/ordering/anything in the status.dat file changes in later
> versions of nagios.
> Or is this my only real option?

NDOUtils and just reading this info out of the database seems like a  
better option.

--
Marc


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