nagcon(1)

💅 nagcon — the manual, but make it a group chat

okay so bestie, welcome to nagcon (that's section 1 of the manual, iykyk) — a console application interfacing to nagios. yes it's a real thing, yes it's iconic, let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

nagcon — nagcon is a console application interfacing to nagios

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

nagcon [ options ]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This manual page documents briefly the nagcon command. like, the highlights, the trailer, the vibe check.

nagcon is a console application to get status of services monitored by nagios. that's it, that's the whole job, and it does it beautifully ✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

one bullet per flag, no skipping, we respect every single one of them fr fr:

• -h — Show help about options. your little emergency exit when you're lost 🙈
• -f file — what file to monitor (usually: /var/log/nagios/status.log). the main character file ngl.
• -F host:port — connect to a host for retrieving the status.log information. remote bestie energy 🌈
• -i x — check interval (in seconds). how often we look, and we <em>will</em> look 👀
• -a — list also the services for hosts that are down. messy but honest.
• -n — also display services for which notify has been switched off 🔕
• -k — also display problems that already have been acknowledged. we see you, we're just chill about it now 💅
• -g — turn off grouping by status. ungrouped, unbothered, unbothered fr
• -s — change sort order. rearrange the whole vibe 🔥
• -e / -o — suppress services with ok status. no more "everything's fine" spam, we get it, slay ✨
• -x — status.log-file is in Nagios 1.0 format. throwback era 🦋
• -X — status.log-file is in Nagios 2.0 format. glow-up era ✨
• -1 x — set width of hostname column. give the names room to breathe 🌸
• -2 x — set width of service description column. same, but for the service descriptions 🎀
• -V — display version. proof of who you are, periodt 👑

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Lionel Porcheron <lionel@alveonet.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. go read it bestie, it's giving legally binding ✨

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okay that's the whole page 🫶 this was nagcon(1), dated 2006-08-01, and it ate, no cap. go forth and monitor ur services, main character 💖