Using nagios for machine-to-machine reporting?

[Kelly Jones]

Nagios does a great job of monitoring/reporting to humans (or
sysadmins, the nearest equivalent <G>), but can it also be used for
machine-to-machine reporting?

Example: machine X at my company wants to start a process that
involves machines Y and Z. However, if either machine is down, X's
proces should die quietly (no point in reporting Y or Z is down, since
a sysadmin has presumably already been notified).

Can machine X contact my nagios server for a machine-readable status
of machines Y and Z?

I realize I could wget/curl/lynx-source the page:

http://nagios.mycompany.com/nagios/cgi-bin/extinfo.cgi?type=1&host=hostname

and parse the output, but that seems ugly. Is there a
"machine-readable" option for the page above that just prints "up",
"down", "unknown", "parent down" or a number or something
easy-to-parse like that?

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