Exporting check data to another systems in real time

[hotdealdave]

My organization is currently planning to impliment a "Monitor of Monitors" system, which is to display statuses of systems monitored by Nagios, as well as several other monitors to provide managers and Execs a wholistic view of IT infrastructure health. The product has not been decided on yet.

I have been asked to find out what method or methods Nagios XI can use to export check results to another system, and if there is a preferred way. We would want to minimize network traffic and performance impact on the Nagios XI server.

Any thoughts from the support staff?

[abrist]

This could be done multiple ways as XI is fairly extensible. You should take a look over the Component Development Document as it explains how to pull data from xi. You could use the backendargs to pull a full (or custom truncated) xml file from XI, listing host and service status, and send it to a different application.

There is a commercial product we offer called "Fusion" that acts as a front end for XI and core among others.

I assure you that other members of the support team would have other (probably better) ideas as well.