programmatic access to nagios state

[Henti Smith]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Aamer Akhter <aakhter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,

Hi,

> Is there a way to programmatically access the state of specific
> services that nagios is monitoring? I can see how one could do that
> via the web interface but that would mean parsing the html. Is there a
> more straightforward API/interface?


Nagios writes the current state in a file called status.dat

This file can be parsed to find the status of the host/service you want.

Henti

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