Nagios Parser

Description

The nagios_parser gem provides a parser for the Nagios status.dat files and a parser for the Nagios object definition files.

• NagiosParser::Status::Parser
• NagiosParser::Object::Parser

Both parsers return plain hashes and arrays. There are no special Nagios objects or something like that. That means you can create your own wrapping objects or use the simple data structure directly.

Installation

# gem install nagios_parser

Usage

Status Parser

require 'nagios_parser/status/parser'
require 'pp'

status = <<-STATUS
  info {
          created=1291408262
          version=3.2.0
          last_update_check=1291201457
          update_available=1
          last_version=3.2.0
          new_version=3.2.3
          }
  hoststatus {
          host_name=server1
          modified_attributes=0
          check_command=check-ping
          check_period=24x7
          notification_period=24x7
          check_interval=5.000000
          retry_interval=1.000000
          event_handler=
          has_been_checked=1
          }
STATUS

data = NagiosParser::Status::Parser.parse(status)
pp data

This will print a data structure that looks like this.

{"info"=>
  [{"last_version"=>"3.2.0",
    "version"=>"3.2.0",
    "last_update_check"=>1291201457,
    "new_version"=>"3.2.3",
    "update_available"=>1,
    "created"=>1291408262}],
 "hoststatus"=>
  [{"check_command"=>"check-ping",
    "host_name"=>"server1",
    "notification_period"=>"24x7",
    "check_period"=>"24x7",
    "modified_attributes"=>0,
    "retry_interval"=>"1.000000",
    "has_been_checked"=>1,
    "event_handler"=>nil,
    "check_interval"=>"5.000000"}]}

Object Parser

require 'nagios_parser/object/parser'
require 'pp'

object = <<-OBJECT
  define command {
          command_name check-http
          command_line $USER1$/check_http -I $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 420 -c 840
  }
  define host {
    host_name server1
    alias     server1.example.com
    address   10.0.0.1
  }
OBJECT

data = NagiosParser::Object::Parser.parse(object)
pp data

This will print a data structure that looks like this.

{"command"=>
  [{"command_name"=>"check-http",
    "command_line"=>"$USER1$/check_http -I $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 420 -c 840"}],
 "host"=>
  [{"address"=>"10.0.0.1",
    "host_name"=>"server1",
    "alias"=>"server1.example.com"}]}

Development

The parsers are based on the racc parser generator. racc is needed at runtime, but that should be no problem since it's included in the Ruby standard library.

To modify the parsers you have to modify the .y files and regenerate the Ruby files afterwards. There are two rake tasks to help with that.

• rake parser::status
• rake parser::object

The bundler gem is used to handle the development dependencies. Run bundle install to install them.

Please let me know if you have any questions or if you run into any problems.

Contribute

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Commit, do not mess with Rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2010 Bernd Ahlers. See LICENSE for details.