programmatic access to nagios state

[Daniel Wittenberg]

We use the livestatus event broker for that purpose, there is also a JSON web services frontend for livestatus as well.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Clark [mailto:noc at fohnet.co.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 3:44 AM
To: Nagios Users List
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] programmatic access to nagios state

On 1 Nov 2011, at 04:25, Aamer Akhter <aakhter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is there a way to programmatically access the state of specific
> services that nagios is monitoring? I can see how one could do that
> via the web interface but that would mean parsing the html. Is there a
> more straightforward API/interface?
>
> --
> Aamer Akhter / aakhter at gmail.com
>

There's the Nagios::Status perl modules. Apart from that, Icinga now
has a basic JSON API for querying service status etc.

--
Richard Clark
richard at fohnet.co.uk

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