status.dat is easy to parse, which make it a good choice to share between nagios and other programs/systems. I see this(thin version of statusXML.php: <a href="http://svn.jasonantman.com/nagios-xml/statusXML-krzywanski.php">http://svn.jasonantman.com/nagios-xml/statusXML-krzywanski.php</a>), and this(c version of nagios-xml: <a href="http://svn.jasonantman.com/nagios-xml/php_module/">http://svn.jasonantman.com/nagios-xml/php_module/</a>), which maybe more usefull for light-weight or high-performance purpose. <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Wenhua Zhang <<a href="mailto:shiziwen@gmail.com" target="_blank">shiziwen@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi Mike, Thanks for your information. If the new version support the API's for XML and JSON, I think it will be very useful for many people. I am looking forward to the new revision. Best Wishes, Wenhua 2012/5/7 Mike Guthrie <<a href="mailto:mguthrie@nagios.com">mguthrie@nagios.com</a>>: <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> As a side note it looks like there is already an addon that's been > written that produces the status data in XML format. > > <a href="http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/APIs/XML/Status-XML-Generator/details" target="_blank">http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/APIs/XML/Status-XML-Generator/details</a> > > > Although they won't be making it into the 3.4 release, we'll be looking > at incorporating community developed API's for XML and JSON in the next > revision of Nagios core since there has been quite a bit of interest in it. > > > On 5/6/2012 8:05 PM, Wenhua Zhang wrote: >> Hi Robert, >> Thanks for your advice, it is a good idea. >> >> As till now, status-txt just returns status.dat as plain text. When we >> wrote this program, we have thought about many formats, such as JSON, >> XML, plain text and so on. We use plain text because it is simple, but >> now I found it may be not widely used as JSON and XML. (status-json >> can get the nagios data as JSON. You can get it from >> <a href="http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/APIs/JSON/status-2Djson/details" target="_blank">http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/APIs/JSON/status-2Djson/details</a>) >> >> status-txt is the first version, and we will add more function in the >> next version, such as more filters and maybe more output formats. >> >> I think you can push your PHP program to the this email list, maybe >> some one will be interested, like me. >> >> Best Wishes, >> Wenhua >> >> >> 2012/5/6 Robert Arends<<a href="mailto:rarends@imc.net.au">rarends@imc.net.au</a>>: >>> Sounds great. Does it output in XML ? Would be good to support that as an option. >>> It would be good to have a search option - as in , return all hosts/services/downtime etc matching ".....". If it could do regex on the match would be nice. >>> >>> I've just written a rough php program to return status.dat as XML. >>> It works very well but C++ would be quicker and I wouldn't have to cleanup the code. >>> >>> I'll run this up during the week to see if it is a good as it sounds like it is. >>> >>> Thanks rob >>> >>> >>> >>> Sent from my iWorld >>> >>> On 06/05/2012, at 2:08, "Wenhua Zhang"<<a href="mailto:shiziwen@gmail.com">shiziwen@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks for your reply! >>>> I hope it will be useful to you. >>>> It is the first version and we will add more functions. If you have >>>> some advice, please feel free to let me know. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Best Wishes, >>>> Wenhua >>>> >>>> 2012/5/5 Alex Griffin<<a href="mailto:agriffin@nagios.com">agriffin@nagios.com</a>>: >>>>> Thanks for posting this, it looks pretty useful! >>>>> >>>>> Alex Griffin >>>>> --- >>>>> Tech Team >>>>> <a href="mailto:agriffin@nagios.com">agriffin@nagios.com</a> >>>>> >>>>> On 05/02/2012 10:57 PM, Wenhua Zhang wrote: >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> Recently, we need a API or application to get the nagios data as other >>>>>> easily readable format such as XML, JSON or plain text instead of the >>>>>> default HTML. >>>>>> status-txt is implemented to duplicate the output of status.cgi in >>>>>> plain text to achieve this goal, making it easier for other >>>>>> applications/services to use Nagios data. >>>>>> >>>>>> Compile status-txt.c to create status-txt.cgi, this cgi accepts >>>>>> exactly the same URL parameters that status.cgi accepts, and filters >>>>>> its output appropriately. >>>>>> In this version, it accepts almost all the arguments passed in the URL >>>>>> which status.cgi accepts except "style", "navbarsearch", "columns" and >>>>>> "noheader". >>>>>> And we will add more functionalities in the next version. >>>>>> >>>>>> The status-txt.cgi will returns service data that appears in the >>>>>> "status" table of status.cgi as "host_ip host_status >>>>>> [service:service_status;......]", not includes the top portion of the >>>>>> page, eg: >>>>>> 196.0.0.1 UP HTTP_80:OK; >>>>>> 196.0.0.2 UP DB_PORT_3306:OK;DB_PORT_3307:OK; >>>>>> And you can use some arguments to filter its output, such as >>>>>> "hostgroup", "servicegroup", "host" and so on. >>>>>> >>>>>> The attachment is the source code, if you have any ideas about it, >>>>>> please feel free to let me know. >>>>>> You can also get the source code from github >>>>>> "<a href="https://github.com/shiziwen/nagios-status2txt" target="_blank">https://github.com/shiziwen/nagios-status2txt</a>". >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> Best Wishes, >>>>>> Wenhua >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>>> Live Security Virtual Conference >>>>>> Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and >>>>>> threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. 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