Nagios::object is a group of modules for parsing a nagios configuration and providing an object representation in perl. it has support for inheriting from templates and the structure is kept in tact within the perl representation.

nagios::statuslog reads the nagios status log and returns status objects which can be used to get status information about a host.

nagios::config creates a new nagios::config object, which will parse a nagios main configuration file and all of it's object configuration files.