Hi, I am working on implementing some functionality that will allow me to safely expose nagios.cmd to external hosts. In my environment there are maintenance tasks that run periodically which disrupt certain services, causing nagios to start generating alerts. Needless to say, I am tired of having my cell phone go crazy when this happens. (Especially in the middle of the night.) Initially I created a simple page in php that schedules downtimes depending on the request values given to it. This worked for a while, but I quickly ran into the problem of some commands being placed into the nagios.cmd pipe taking 30-45 seconds to be processed and others being incorrectly formatted. What I want to implement now is a way for my extremely simplistic "API" to report back on the success or failure of commands passed to it. I know that nagios can write EXTERNAL COMMAND: entries to syslog, but I'm not sure how to determine the results of these commands. Any suggestions or input on my approach would be greatly appreciated. -Scott Sanders