Welcome to Cnagios! Cnagios is a full-screen terminal interface for viewing Nagios HOST and SERVICE objects, and the durations of their current states. It's lightning fast because it's written in C using the curses library. And it's super flexible because it uses the perl C library to shorten and alter host, service and plugin output and filter the displayed HOSTs or SERVICEs. Download... ftp://noc.hep.wisc.edu/pub/src/cnagios/ To use Cnagios, you'll need Unix, nagios, perl and the curses (or ncurses) libraries. To configure, build and install Cnagios, do... ./configure make make install If you want to install cnagios and it's man page in /usr/local then do "make install2". To run Cnagios, add "/usr/local/nagios/bin" to your PATH (or copy cnagios into /usr/bin) and do... cnagios If you don't like the full-color display, try... cnagios -b To launch Cnagios from your window manager, configure it to run color Cnagios in a wide xterm terminal with no scroll bar... my favorite invocation is... xterm +sb -geom 100x35 -rv -e \ /usr/local/nagios/bin/cnagios -s a -A 4h To modify the default/start-up configuration of cnagios, edit the /usr/local/nagios/etc/cnagiosrc and/or ~/.cnagiosrc file(s). You can also create permanent text (grep like) filters or negative (grep -v like) filters by editing the /usr/local/nagios/etc/cnagiosrc and/or ~/.cnagiosrc file(s). These filters are perl regular expressions. For example, the entry... f3 text =~ /IMAP|SMTP/ and hitting the "F3" key will cause cnagios to only display objects matching "IMAP" or "SMTP". To modify host, service and plugin output, edit the perl code in... /usr/local/nagios/etc/cnagios.pl Refer to... ftp://noc.hep.wisc.edu/pub/src/cnagios/cnagios.pl for lots of examples. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions for enhancements to Cnagios, don't hesitate to contact me: steve -- director of computing physics department university of wisconsin