16.2 An Overview of the Individual CGI Programs

At the time of going to press, this chapter was the most extensive documentation on the Nagios Web interface, especially for the individual CGI scripts. But for reasons of space, we shall not go into every detail. If you want to know more, you must take a look at the source code of the scripts or look at the nagios-users[150] mailing list. Some of these are also read by the Nagios developers, and many a question is answered there for which there is currently no documentation.

16.2.1 Variations in status display: status.cgi

By far the most important CGI program, status.cgi is responsible for the status display. What it shows is determined by three parameter groups. The first one defines whether the ...

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