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Hello,

I was trying to access nagios cgi-bin throw https://nagios-ip/nagios/cgi-bin/statusjson.cgi?
by providing credentials, sometimes it works others doesn't work.
it's weird .
can anyone help?

Hello,

If you're using Nagios XI, I would recommend using the Backend API. Go to Help > API Docs for documentation.

Thanks Benjamin for your reply.

So how can I get a list of down host in a specific host_group using API. this is the main point.

this is what I was using (but it's not reliable way, as you said it's better using API)

curl -u nagiosadm:$(cat /path-to-password) "http://nagios_IP/nagios/cgi-bin/statusjson.cgi?query=hostlist&formatoptions=duration&details=true&hostgroup=specific_host_group&hoststatus=down"

You can get them from the XI API
Help -> Objects Reference -> objects/hostgroupmembers

The call would look something like this

Thanks scott,

but this will give me all hostgroup members.

I only need the host in down state only in that hostgroup.

Thanks and regards.

You would then need to make another call to objects/hoststatus with something like the following extracting the host names from the previous call

current_state=nin:0 means NOT 0 (not UP)

name=in:HOST1,HOST2,HOST3 means only show the hosts in the comma separated list

Thanks very much Scott for those valuable info.

but how could we gather the two conditions. I still need host list in specific host_group and their status is down.

Regards.

gad314 wrote:Thanks very much Scott for those valuable info.

but how could we gather the two conditions. I still need host list in specific host_group and their status is down.

Regards.

You would need to make a call to the objects/hostgroupmembers API end-point, parse the JSON results in your script, and then use that to make the second call.