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Hi,

Using the nagios web interface is it possible to extract the contactgroups associated with a server and the e-mail addresses associated with the contactgroups?

The reason I ask is that I'm using curl to control and report on my Nagios instance and I want to use the same technique for a script I am developing. If I could work out how to get the information on screen I could easily work out the curl command.

David

There are a few ways to get this information.

1. You could create a script that parses the objects.cache file for the desired information. Depending on how you named objects, this can be difficult to parse (and cannot be curled).

2. Utilize a combination of configuration pages:

The following will give you a single row table with the host object information (including contacts and contactgroups) The next url will show you a table of the members of the contact group in question: The final url will show you a table of the contact, including the email address: With these three urls, you should be able to write logic to curl and parse to variables in your script. Best of luck!

Simply beautiful! I've not scripted it yet, but the URLs are exactly what I need - scripting it will be easy from here. Much appreciated.

Rotty

Good luck! Closing thread, feel free to open another if you need it.