How to get SNMP info programatically using Nagios

[Khooji]

Hey folks,

I am new to the whole world of network monitoring. I have reviewed several open source SNMP server monitoring software packages such as OpenNMS and Nagios. I found out that using OpenNMS, you can easily get the information of your server like memory usage, cpu usage, temperature and etc using the ReST API OpenNMS provides. Since I need to get this information programatically and not through the UI(website), I was wondering if there is any similar mechanism like this in Nagios as well?

In another word, now that I got the Nagios web server working and can get the different information of the server, is there any way I get this data programatically?

Thanks in advance

[Khooji]

Is there any thoughts on this from Nagios community?
I am looking for a way to get the data from SNMP clients using Nagios programmatically. Can anyone please help? Something similar to OpenNMS.

[scottwilkerson]

Yes. In the newer versions you can collect data with the json api

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http://YOUR_HOST/nagios/jsonquery.html