Chapter 8. Nagios Event Broker Interface

In this chapter, you delve into the inner workings of Nagios by exploring the Nagios Event Broker. The Event Broker is new to the 2.0 kernel series, and it is definitely the most powerful interface available to Nagios; however, actually wielding it requires some modest knowledge of C programming. Don’t let that scare you, however; if you possess even a passing familiarity of C, the information presented in this chapter should get you well on your way to extending Nagios’s functionality to your heart’s content.

Function References and Callbacks in C

If C programming isn’t something you do often, you may not have ever used function pointers. If you are adept at C, feel free to skip this section. Function ...

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