Python MK Livestatus parser

Authors:	Michael Fladischer Paulo Telles
Version:	0.5-pop

Contents

• Usage

Access the data returned from MK Livestatus queries as a Python list of lists. It does this by sending queries to the MK Livestatus UNIX socket and parses the returned rows. Read/write permission to the UNIX socket are required.

This package is known to be compatible with Python 2.7, 3.3, 34, pypy and pypy3.

This version is modified to return data from MK Livestatus queries in Python output format, then uses eval() to transform it in a list of lists.

Usage

Here a simple example to fetch the name for all servers in the UP (0) state:

>>> from mk_livestatus import Socket
>>> s = Socket("/var/lib/icinga/rw/live")
>>> q = s.hosts.columns('name').filter('state = 0')
>>> print q
GET hosts
Columns: name
Filter: state = 0

>>> q.call()
[{'name': 'example.com', 'groups': ['ssh', 'snmp', 'smtp-server', 'ping-server', 'http-server', 'debian-server', 'apache2']}]

s.hosts returns a Query to the hosts resources on Nagios. The columns and filter methods modify our query and return it, so we can chain the calls. The call to call method returns the rows as a list of dictionaries.

If you use xinetd to bind the Unix socket to a TCP socket (like explained here), you can create the socket like :

>>> s = Socket(('192.168.1.1', 6557))

For more information please visit the python-mk-livestatus website. Information about MK Livestatus and it's query syntax is available at the mk-livestatus website.