Might want to take a quick look at how Ganglia.sf.net does XML -
relatively simple setup using XML to multicast host state information for
a cluster.
I'll try and write up a draft of the XML structure for discussion - It
might also be handy for for a few other things in v2/v3
-sg
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Ethan Galstad wrote:
> It has been mentioned by several people in the past that it would be
> helpful if there was a way of getting status information in XML
> format. NTray is one program that would benefit from this.
>
> The easiest solution at the moment would be to write a CGI that does
> this. However, I know very little about XML at the moment, so I need
> assistance from people in the know. Specifically, what should the
> output look like to make it easy to interpret?
>
> There are 3 types of entities that have status data:
>
> - Process status (1 entry)
> - Host status (Multiple entries)
> - Service status (Multiple entries)
>
> I suppose it would be nice to be able to get access to comment and
> downtime data in XML format as well, although that is less of a
> priority that status data.
>
> Comments? Suggestions?
>
>
>
> Ethan Galstad,
> Nagios Developer
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