Hello perl masters: Im trying to get some especific values listed on the status.dat file generated by nagios. I have seen some php scripts that can parse this file into a json format , this is ok but when I turn the json into an array there are a lot of data lost due to the nature of the json source. Im thinking about a script that changes dinamically a pattern to match while doing a loop over the file. The content of the file is something like:

hoststatus {
    host_name=AAA1
    modified_attributes=0
    check_command=check-host-alive
    check_period=24x7
    notification_period=24x7
    check_interval=5.000000
    retry_interval=1.000000
    }

servicestatus {
    host_name=AAA1
    plugin_output=eth0:UP, eth2:UP, eth3:UP, eth1:UP:4 UP: OK    
    }

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So I would like then to have: $1=host_name=AAA1 $2=plugin_output=eth0:UP, eth2:UP, eth3:UP, eth1:UP:4 Any ideas about how to achieve this would be pretiated Regards.

In reply to Parsing nagios status.dat by leostereo

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