Does Nagios have an API that can control targets?

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Published on 2010-05-17T14:16:23Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 14:20 UTC
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In Zabbix, there is a well documented (although in Draft status) API for instantiating targets and controlling them. Does such an API exist in Nagios?

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