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by dhruvaps
Fri Oct 14, 2011 10:37 am
Forum: Nagios XI
Topic: Back End Queries: Best Practices
Replies: 5
Views: 1632

Back End Queries: Best Practices

Hello, We need to access the back end. I have been looking at services provided by the Backend API URL plugin, but we need more finely-grained queries than appear to be provided. For example, we need to be able to query the current host status, returning only those with a certain command: http://nag...
by dhruvaps
Wed Aug 10, 2011 1:02 pm
Forum: Nagios XI
Topic: Backend Write Access (XI)
Replies: 6
Views: 2873

Re: Backend Write Access (XI)

Thanks for your reply, mguthrie. That seems to work, but I noticed that reconfigure_nagios.sh actually restarts the server. As this solution will potentially be monitoring thousands of servers, we would prefer to update the configuration without taking down Nagios. Is there a way to update the confi...
by dhruvaps
Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:00 am
Forum: Nagios XI
Topic: Backend Write Access (XI)
Replies: 6
Views: 2873

Backend Write Access (XI)

Hello, We are evaluating Nagios XI, and need to be able to automate the addition of new hosts (this will be triggered by a web service). Unlike Nagios Core, it is not clear how to do this in XI. I found the plugin for backend access , but this appears to be read-only. The approaches that occur to me...