I have been tossing around the idea of using a python based framework to
communicate with and retrieve desired information from the Nagios
Engine. The reason for me thinking Python is also the ability to easily
transplant the code into a GTK application, for both Windows and Posfix
systems.
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 23:18 +0200, Yann JOUANIN wrote:
> Have a look on my project : Nagios2Json=20
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> http://www.yannj.fr/nagios2json
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> It is in beta but could help you in reading data from Nagios
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> Yann
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> De :[email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] De la part de Jon
> Buys
> Envoy=C3=A9 : mardi 17 juin 2008 22:22
> =C3=80 : Nagios Developers List
> Objet : Re: [Nagios-devel] Front End Development
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> I have tried searched high and low for documentation regarding
> the way a Front End should communicate with Nagios 3.x ( even
> 2.x ), but with no avail. If anyone has a site or a quick run
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> I'm looking for the same thing. It seems to me that parsing the log
> files would be best until a decent broker is developed. On a side
> note, does anyone know how tools like the Nagios Firefox plugin get
> their information? =20
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> A side note, I started by simply parsing the Nagios log files
> for the information I wanted, but decided that it may not be
> the correct way to do it and have halted at that point to
> research some better alternatives and methods.=20
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> Right, I'm thinking of doing the same thing. I'd rather work slower
> and be more stable than faster and be prone to crashing. Also, I'd
> rather not install anything else in my Nagios config, and be able to
> build a tool that can read data from it "out of the box". =20
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> I'm developing a desktop application with ties into Nagios, any advice
> is appreciated. =20
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> Thanks,
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