E-Mail Parsing

[compqact]

Hi there,

I'm trying to find out if Nagios supports e-mail parsing, and then can perform a specific action. We monitor devices remotely which we do not have direct access to, and so rely on e-mail. The e-mail, format and almost identical bar, a small changing piece per customer and the device name. Based on that I would like to flag it up on Nagios as red, green or orange depending on the message. Is this supported on Nagios ?

Thanks

Andrew

[tonyyarusso]

It is most definitely supported as a possibility by the architecture of Nagios, but there is not a "plug and play" automatic way of setting it up. You would need to write a "check plugin" to do the actual parsing based on what you know about the format you expect, in the language of your choice, and then tell Nagios to use it. You can find general information about how plugins work on http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/pluginapi.html, and detailed plugin "best practices" on http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/devel ... lines.html.