hey-johnnypark/livestatus4j

Java Libraries for querying livestatus via network

livestatus4j

Java Client Library for mk_livestatus by Matthias Kettner

About

Livestatus is a broker module for for Nagios which is a system-monitoring application. It enables the user to query information about the statuses of the objects directly out of the nagios core using lql (Livestatus Query Language).

Features

• querying of nagios objects snd statuses directly over the network using a lightweight protocol
• implemented so far: Tables (HOSTS, SERVERICES), Columns, Filters

Getting Started

• Download the latest release

    wget https://github.com/hey-johnnypark/livestatus4j/zipball/master
  

• Extract the project

    tar xvf livestatus4j-xxx.zip
  

• Include the .jar file in your Java Buildpath

• Use it!

    import static foo.bar.livestatus.LiveStatusTable.HOSTS;
    import foo.bar.livestatus.LiveStatusConn;
    import foo.bar.livestatus.LiveStatusQuery;
    import foo.bar.livestatus.LiveStatusResult;
    import foo.bar.livestatus.LiveStatusResultEntry;
  
    LiveStatusConn lsc = new LiveStatusConn("nagios-host", 6557); //set up the tcp connection
    LiveStatusQuery lsq = new LiveStatusQuery(HOSTS).addColumn("address").addColumn("name"); //create the query and add specific columns you like to query
    LiveStatusResult lsr= lsc.query(lsq); //lsq is an Array of LiveStatusResultEntry instances 
    LiveStatusResultEntry lsre= lsr.get(0); //retrieves the first entry
    
    System.out.println("HOST_NAME: " + lsre.get("name")); //prints the host name
    System.out.println("HOST_ADDRESS: " + lsre.get("address")); //prints the host address
    System.out.println("Results count: " + lsr.size()); //how many entries have been retrieved in total
  

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