How to parse nagios status.dat file?

Question

I\'d like to parse status.dat file for nagios3 and output as xml with a python script. The xml part is the easy one but how do I go about parsing the file? Use multi line re

Answer 1

Don't know nagios and its config file, but the structure seems pretty simple:

# comment
identifier {
  attribute=
  attribute=value
}

which can simply be translated to

    attribute-value

all contained inside a root-level tag.

I don't see line breaks in the values. Does nagios have multi-line values?

You need to take care of equal signs within attribute values, so set your regex to non-greedy.