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Hi,

Using Nagios XI 2014R1.5 and xMatters v2.0.

We are implementing xMatters for the Nagios host/service state changes, notifications, escalations. etc...

We will use web service/host URL to be called from Nagios XI service via the xMatters component.

Question, is there any way we can have Nagios XI auto acknowledge once the web service call to xMatters is complete?

You could trigger a script at some point in between which submits an acknowledgement command through the Nagios command pipe.

See:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/extcommands.html

Thank you! When i have free moment i will look at your suggestion and post back.

Great, feel free to ask any questions you have, it should be fairly straightforward. If you have a bash scripter in house it should be short work.

ok. We are now ready to implement this. Question, is the external command method the recommended way to process state change back into Nagios from another application? Is there another method (i.e REST API, HTTP Post) available?

brdr

Have a look at this thread:

http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtop ... 110#p90830

Basically, you use curl to send the command through to http://XX.XX.XX.XX/nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi

Thanks slansing. I was able to successfully use external commands to acknowledge services and hosts.

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