Nagios XML Engine

[dan at julieanddan.com]

OK, I know there were a lot of problems with the last "dtd" sent out 
(comments and all). 

While the Nagios configuration files would do much better with a schema 
based design, a simple dtd is sufficient for the status file for the 
moment. I'll try and pump out a schema design for the statuslog file soon. 
 I am working on an entire XML tier for interfacing with Nagios 1.x. I 
will release components as they become useful. 

The first component I have is a small Perl app that will create an XML 
document from the Nagios 1.0 status file according to the dtd included in 
this message. This app can be used either from the command-line (for 
pipeline processing) or as a CGI. Just change the path to your status file 
in the first line of code (and make sure you have setup permissions 
properly) and you should be good to go.

This app can be used to integrate Nagios status information into any 
application that understands XML. This weekend I intend to setup a 
Sourceforge project for these components. The posted version will also 
contain the ability to transform the XML via XSLT stylesheets before 
outputting the data. I hope to have completed a sample Web UI for 
reporting Nagios Status using these techniques.

If anyone has any problems with this code, please let me know. Also if 
anyone tries it on Nagios 1.1 I would appreciate knowing how it works.

Thanks, 

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John Arley Burns <johnarleyburns at yahoo.com> 
17/06/2003 11:22 AM

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Re: [Nagios-devel] status log dtd again







Good start, but it would have to be substantially expanded to include
everything currently in the Nagios config files.

You might want to switch to XSchema since it's much clearer and allows
for tighter definitions.

PS Your DTD can't contain comments <!-- * --> within the element
definition.

--- dan at julieanddan.com wrote:

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Sorry about the html garbage in my lastpost, let's try that again


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