Re: [Nagios-devel] Database access via Nagios

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Re: [Nagios-devel] Database access via Nagios

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Thanks. I will take a look into the Event Broker stuff.

But just out of interest, does anyone know how the NINJA and NBOARD web
front-ends access stored Nagios data?

This might give me a clue as to how to best tackle this task.

Thanks again in advance.

Marc Powell wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Mohammed Murphy
> >
> wrote:
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> I need a way of accessing the underlying database
> without actually knowing what it is. So the question is, does Nagios
> have some library or functionality to cope with this scenario?
>
>
> Nagios provides an Event Broker interface that allows you to hook into
> nagios using a generic interface but does not provide any kind of
> database abstraction layer. That's up to you to create or find.
> Depending on what your requirements are, the Event Broker API may suit
> your needs. You can look at NDOUtils as an example of it's use.
>
> I'm not aware of any database agnostic libraries. Even on the surface,
> every database is different and would require some difference in the
> methods to access and talk to it so you going to have to have *some*
> awareness of the databases that you'll be taking to and be able to
> support them.
>
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> Marc
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