API questions about Nagios

Holger Weiss holger at CIS.FU-Berlin.DE
Tue Oct 18 05:23:11 CEST 2005


* Jason Martin <jhmartin at toger.us> [2005-10-17 23:04]:
> The commands it executes can be in C/C++/ObjC/Fortran/Java
> (may be slow due to instantiating the jvm every time)/Perl (same
> kind of problem)/Python (not so bad).

Though for Perl, the embedded interpreter could be used and the compiled
scripts can be cached by Nagios, so this might be the most performant
alternative if you don't want to write your plugins in C.  See:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/embeddedperl.html

Holger

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