nagios-cli is a Nagios command line interface, exposing some features that are available via the web based graphical user interface.

Required:

• Nagios 2.x or 3.x
• Python 2.4+

Optional:

• libreadline

The default configuration will look for the status_file file in the /var/log/nagios/status.dat file, and it expects the command_file to be available at /var/log/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd. If you wish to override this, you can generate a configuration file with:

nagios-cli -c nagios-cli.cfg --write

To specify a location to an alternative configuration file, use:

nagios-cli -c <filename>

To see all available options, use:

nagios-cli --help