The function of object (host or service) ID

[hyacinth]

Dear,
I find in XI CCM page each monitor host and service has its own ID as attached. How can we make use of the ID ? Hope Nagios can give me a professional advice. Thanks !

[mcapra]

How can we make use of the ID ?

That is an auto-incremented integer and MySQL primary key. It can be used as a unique identifier for a given Nagios configuration object. Note that each object has it's own primary key, eg you can have a host with "id 1" and a service with "id 1". I think anyway; It's been a while since I've actually laid eyes on the schema.

It's not terribly useful for most third-party integrations, but it could be used as a reference to a specific Nagios configuration object. Using SQL as pseudo-code, WHERE host.id=1 sort of stuff.

[cdienger]

I can't say I've ever really needed it for anything but I suppose it would be useful to help find items in the database. You can get a description of each table with:

echo "describe nagios_hosts" | mysql -unagiosxi -pnagiosxi -Dnagios
echo "describe nagios_services" | mysql -unagiosxi -pnagiosxi -Dnagios