salt.modules.nagios_rpc

Check Host & Service status from Nagios via JSON RPC.

salt.modules.nagios_rpc.host_status(hostname=None, **kwargs)

Check status of a particular host By default statuses are returned in a numeric format.

Parameters:

hostname

The hostname to check the status of the service in Nagios.

numeric

Turn to false in order to return status in text format ('OK' instead of 0, 'Warning' instead of 1 etc)

Returns

status: 'OK', 'Warning', 'Critical' or 'Unknown'

CLI Example:

salt '*' nagios_rpc.host_status hostname=webserver.domain.com
salt '*' nagios_rpc.host_status hostname=webserver.domain.com numeric=False

salt.modules.nagios_rpc.service_status(hostname=None, service=None, **kwargs)

Check status of a particular service on a host on it in Nagios. By default statuses are returned in a numeric format.

Parameters:

hostname

The hostname to check the status of the service in Nagios.

service

The service to check the status of in Nagios.

numeric

Turn to false in order to return status in text format ('OK' instead of 0, 'Warning' instead of 1 etc)

Returns

status: 'OK', 'Warning', 'Critical' or 'Unknown'

CLI Example:

salt '*' nagios_rpc.service_status hostname=webserver.domain.com service='HTTP'
salt '*' nagios_rpc.service_status hostname=webserver.domain.com service='HTTP' numeric=False