Conky is a lightweight system monitor which displays arbitrary information on the linux desktop. I wanted to display the nagios status not only in the firefox browser (using the “nagios checker” extension), but also from the desktop. I found a shell script which was written for xfce and adapted it to output conky compatible output.

How to use it:

copy-paste the nagiosmon.sh script into a file, e.g. $HOME/bin/nagiosmon.sh, and make it executable with chmod +x * add the call to nagiosmon in your .conkyrc file:\\ ''$ {execpi 53 $HOME/bin/nagiosmon.sh}''

Ref: http://dieter.plaetinck.be/nagios_monitoring_in_your_desktop_panel_aka_Xfce_Genmon_panel_plugin_rules#comment-5914

linux, nagios, conky