Automated Daily Host UP/Down Report for Management using Nagios and Python. | Linux Today

Automated Daily Host UP/Down Report for Management using Nagios and Python.

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 21, 2008

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“I hope you Nagios users who have to send reports to
your executives find this script useful but check back soon as I’m
going to be adding more to it or even changing it into its own
class. As of right now it consist of three functions. The only draw
back of the script is that it takes a while to parse the log file
since it has to find all the uniq hosts in nagios.log and find only
the hard down and hard up events compared to the uniq
hosts.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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