Export Contacts and Contact Groups

[jkinning]

Is there an easy way to export Contacts and Contact Groups to a csv file to audit? It would be nice to also include the systems that these contacts and contact groups belong to so you can see everything from a nice spreadsheet. Is any of this easy to do?

[kyang]

We don't have a feature to do something like this in XI.

It's not as pretty, but I think grepping for that information in the objects.cache might be something?

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 grep -A 1 "define contact" /usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache

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grep -A 1 "define contact" /usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache > /tmp/contact.csv 

Into a csv.

Does this help?

[jkinning]

This looks like it might work for the contacts. Anyway to get the email or SMS number for each contact? I know I am asking alot.
What about for Contact Groups to see what contacts are listed in each group?

Then along hose lines get the contacts or contact groups that are assigned for each host/services. If I can't get this data in a csv file just being able to view this information might be enough.

[kyang]

To show the contacts in a contact group, try changing it to 3. This should show the members in a contact_group and it's alias.
You probably see the pattern now. The number adds more lines.

Same thing is to send all this to a csv for example --> > /tmp/contact.csv

For email or SMS, you would have to increase the number, but this will show all of the contact info.

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grep -A 9 "define contact" /usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache

This shows the output below.

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define contact {
        contact_name    xi_default_contact
        alias   Default Contact
        service_notification_period     xi_timeperiod_none
        host_notification_period        xi_timeperiod_none
        service_notification_options    n
        host_notification_options       n
        service_notification_commands   xi_service_notification_handler
        host_notification_commands      xi_host_notification_handler
        email   root@localhost