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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?

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.