programmatic access to nagios state

[Joerg Linge]

Am 01.11.2011 um 06:33 schrieb 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.

a smarter way is to use livestatus

http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_livestatus.html

Joerg

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