Extending Nagios

[joaquin]

Hello,

I put a question to you all, I realized that studying Nagios the only point where we can extend and customize it in writing your own plugins. It 's true?

[agriffin]

There are many existing components built on top of Nagios, but you're right in the sense that there is no easy API to help you. Most of them use ugly hacks to communicate with Nagios.

[joaquin]

There are many existing components built on top of Nagios, but you're right in the sense that there is no easy API to help you. Most of them use ugly hacks to communicate with Nagios.

For example, to introduce basic functionality without plugins should I integrate my code, and recompile. Right?

[agriffin]

That's certainly one option, but it's not the approach taken by most third-party projects. For example, NagiosQL is a configuration utility which reads and writes the config files directly. Alternative interfaces might read information by parsing Nagios Core's web interface.