Nagios Notifications

[rentsys]

Is there a command I can run that looks to see if Nagios notifications are enabled? I want to make something that emails us if Nagios notifications are disabled at a certain time of day.

[abrist]

Yes. You can use the json api to get this information if you are running core4 and XI 2014:

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http://<ip>/nagios/cgi-bin/statusjson.cgi?query=programstatus

Or you can use the XML XI backend to get the programstatus:

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http://<ip>/nagiosxi/backend/?cmd=getprogramstatus

[rentsys]

Do you know how I could output the XML XI backend into a file?

[abrist]

uh, depends. You can just wget it to a file. Curl it, and then redirect to a file. Save it in your browser. Many ways to do this. How are you retrieving it?

[rentsys]

I tried to wget it, but how do I get past the fact that it needs a username and password? I think curl is the way to go, but I don't know what type of authentication to use.

[abrist]

You can embed the basic auth credentials in the url for the core json api:

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curl -k http://nagiosadmin:<password>@<nagios server ip>/nagios/cgi-bin/statusjson.cgi?query=programstatus

Redirect it to a file with:

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curl -k http://nagiosadmin:<password>@<nagios server ip>/nagios/cgi-bin/statusjson.cgi?query=programstatus > /tmp/programstatus.json

You can add a ticket id to the XI XML url to pull the XML without a login. You can get the ticket id from the backend url component. Go to --> Admin --> Manage Components --> Backend.
Select the user you wish to log in as (I suggest a read-only user), and then copy the last two get parameters (user and ticket) from the any of the urls.

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curl -k http://<ip>/nagiosxi/backend/?cmd=getprogramstatus&username=<user>&ticket=<ticket id string>

[rentsys]

I have the @ sign in my password so it says

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curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host '@[email protected]'

how do i get past this?

[Box293]

Change your password so it doesn't have an @ symbol.

[rentsys]

I just html encoder it changed the @ sign into %40, this thread can be closed.