Vista gadget for monitoring Nagios

[Jouko Markkanen]

Hello, fellow Nagios users!

If you happen to run Windows Vista, and monitor your environment using 
Nagios, you might have thought that it'd be nice to have a sidebar 
gadget to display your Nagios' stats.

Well, now there is such a gadget. Actually it's been available on 
nagiosexchange for a few weeks, but now I've also uploaded it to Live 
Gallery also.

You can get the latest version here:
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F2603.html;d=1

The gadget displays statistics (number of hosts/services 
ok/down/warning/critical/whatever), and clocking on the gadget you get a 
flyout that shows details on each host and service.

The catch here is, however, that you need to get the data from Nagios 
using http, and for that purpose, there is a cgi (perl) script that must 
be installed on Nagios server. The script reads Nagios' status.dat, 
converts it to xml and outputs requested information. If you need 
Nagios' status information in xml format for any other purpose, you 
might also want to check this out, as the script is written in a generic 
purpose manner. (I only wish that there was a standards-based API to 
request info from Nagios such as SOAP, it would make this kind of 
systems much easier.)

For further instructions, please read the README.txt in installation 
directory.

If you have any suggestions and/or comments, you're welcome to mail me 
(or the list, but include me in cc, as I don't regularly follow the 
list). Especially I'd like know how this handles in big-scale 
environments (the biggest I'm using it on is 40 hosts/150 services).

- J


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