Finding the IP address of parent host

[cskang]

I need to find the host name (IP address is ok too) of Parent host of a specified host.
How can I do this?

[mguthrie]

Can you give us a little more detail as to where you need this and what you need it for? I'm not really sure how to answer that without more explanation.

[cskang]

I am planning to design a web-page that finds all parents for a user specified host, and then search for the data in the service output of the parent hosts.
I was hoping that backendapiURL may have a link which may display host and parent host relationship, but I could not find any.
Is there a plan for NagiosXI backendapiURL to include a link to have read access to host-parent host relationship?
Or is there any alternative way to access the current host and parent host relationship from php web page?

[mguthrie]

We have backend data commands for XML, take a look at these and see if they get you what you need.

[url]http://<yourhost>/nagiosxi/backend/?cmd=getparenthosts[/url]
[url]http://<yourhost>/nagiosxi/backend/?cmd=gethosts[/url]

[cskang]

Thanks.
https://<yourhost>/nagiosxi/backend/?cmd=getparenthosts
provided me the information that I was searching for.

Regards,
Charles

[mguthrie]

Good deal! Let us know if you have any additional questions.