writing own interface, status.log question

[jgking at packetstorm.org]

Now that I have nagios setup like I want (man is this tool flexible), I am 
wanting to present the data differently than the Nagios Console. Basically 
I have a postnuke php portal that i made custom blocks to parse NMIS data 
for network graphs and I plan on doing a similar set of blocks for Nagios.

The reason i am doing it this way is that I can present a customized read 
only overview of the system that 
in no way interacts with the main consoles other than reading a set of 
data files.

Looking at Nagios, it seems the only file i need to worry about is the 
status.log file


Which is a semicolon delimited file and im only concerned to display the 
most current information and the first 4 fields.

timestamp SERVICE;hostname;CHeck Description;Status


Am I missing anything or is it really this easy?

Thanks!



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