Nagios XI Global Event Handlers

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global event handlers

This document describes how to configure Nagios® XI™ to run global event handler scripts in order to process host and service state changes, alerts, and notification information. Global event handlers allow admins to run custom-developed scripts with Nagios XI in order to create custom automation processes.

This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators who have a good understanding of scripts and want to automate their monitoring environment based on host or service state changes.

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