<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Max <<a href="mailto:perldork@webwizarddesign.com">perldork@webwizarddesign.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Scriot is not a bad way to go either though - the Nagios externalcommand API (via the named pipe) is easy to use and well documented.</blockquote><div> That got me pointed the right direction. Found this page </div> <a href="http://old.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/commandinfo.php?command_id=129">http://old.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/commandinfo.php?command_id=129</a> and cobbled up a bash script from that. Thanks! Brian PS Still curious about the service group thing though </div>