[ Thanks to Jane Walker for this link.
]
“There are a number of ways to integrate and utilize the events,
but the most advanced and effective event output and integration
mechanism is the Nagios Event Broker (NEB). NEB, which can check
results, uses callback routines that are executed when events occur
on the Nagios server.“Using NEB you can write broker modules to process these events,
converting them from Nagios into a variety of forms, including
MySQL databases, SNMP traps or syslog messages. You can also use
the event data in other applications and tools…”