writing own interface, status.log question

[jgking at packetstorm.org]

oh i read the FAQ but most FAQs seem to leave out some important piece of 
info and i just wanted to be sure before I started codeing the php block

Thanks!


On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Russell Scibetti wrote:

> You might want to take a look at the FAQ.  It lists what every field in 
> the status.log stands for.  There's probably more you care about than 
> just the first 4 things, like what retry its on, Soft or Hard state, is 
> it acknowledged, in a downtime, etc.
> 
> http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=66
> 
> Russell Scibetti
> 
> jgking at packetstorm.org wrote:
> 
> >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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