Interact with Nagios Interface programatically

[lb2cons]

WillemDH it's working now

The problem is I don't know why. Maybe some parameter was incorrect, I didn't change any code.

I've noticed that the script doesn't provide a validation for the service name. Maybe I could help you with that.

Another question, how are you using this with Windows? I need a cross platform of this automation. I'm thinking about develop this same script in Python what do you think?

[WillemDH]

Hey lb2cons,

Very nice you got it working. Once you put it in Nagios Reactor, you can use Powershell for that on Windows Servers. There should be no need to use Python for that imho. I'm at home now, but I'll post an example of how to use it with Powershell tomorrow. If you are not using Nagios Reactor yet, give it a try, you will like it (it's free) and will help you automating a lot of stuff.

If you want to try make the script better, feel free to submit a pull request.

Grtz

Willem

[tmcdonald]

Thanks @WillemDH! We'll keep this open for your contribution!

[WillemDH]

Well apparently I posted the examples in the wrong thread. Sorry fo that.. you can find them here:

https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... 5&start=10


Example 01: Bash curl

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curl --data 'api_key=cb7262269da487e256d1blabla8269142' --data 'hostname=servername' --data 'version=0.4.1.105' --data 'type=legacy' http://reactorserver/nagiosreactor/index.php/api/eventchain/143/run   

Example 02: Powershell v2

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$webc = New-Object net.WebClient
 
$param = New-Object system.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection
$param.Add('api_key', '640b1f5cblabzkdnapzjdpojadpojdazpoj1809')
$param.Add('hostname', 'servername')
$param.Add('software', 'NSClient')
$param.Add('version', '0.4.1.105')
$param.Add('type', 'legacy')
$ba = $webc.UploadValues('http://reactorserver/nagiosreactor/index.php/api/eventchain/143/run', 'POST', $param)
$xml = [xml]([char[]]$ba -join '')

Example 02: Powershell v3

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$postParams = @{api_key='zdjazpodjapojdoazjdaojzd8269142';hostname='servername';version= '0.4.1.105';type= 'legacy'}
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://reactorserver/nagiosreactor/index.php/api/eventchain/143/run   -Method POST -Body $postParams

So once you create a chain, you can re-use it from anywhere.

[tmcdonald]

Thanks for the post, Willem!

lb2cons, let us know how Willem's PS script works out for you. For the sake of organization, once everything is working for you and all the loose ends are tied up, I would like to close up this thread.

Also, you might like some of the new features in XI 5 ;)

[lb2cons]

tmcdonald, you can close this thread now. Thanks again Willem!