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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+APIKEY="2q2jXBDQ9nq40KEZWoJAUMefV9JvkpRF9Se6JQW9eGceHPtTtsJIeWWp6FeJk5Es"
+XI_URL="https://192.168.1.19/nagiosxi"
+curl="curl -k -s"
+# curl -XGET "https://192.168.1.19/nagiosxi/api/v1/objects/service?apikey=<key>"
+
+hostgroup=""
+api_start=""
+api_command=""
+
+while [ -n "$1" ]; do
+  case "$1" in
+    -g|--group|--hostgroup) hostgroup="$2"; shift 2;;
+    --start) api_start="$2"; shift 2;;
+    --command) api_command="$2"; shift 2;;
+    *) shift 1;;
+  esac
+done
+
+do_api() {
+  api_start="$1"
+  api_command="$2"
+  url="${XI_URL}/nagiosxi/api/v1/${api_start}/${api_command}?apikey=${APIKEY}&pretty=0"
+  $curl -XGET -k "$url"
+}
+
+# If we were given specific API start/commands, then let's do that and exit
+if [ -n "$api_start" -a -n "$api_command" ]; then
+  do_api ${api_start} ${api_command}
+  exit
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$hostgroup" ]; then
+  echo "You did not specify a hostgroup to pull hosts and services for.  Please try again."
+  exit
+fi
+
+# Verify that we were given a valid hostgroup and grab its hosts
+# For extracting JSON data into JSON data, use @csv
+#members=`do_api config hostgroup | jq -r ".[] | select (.hostgroup_name==\"${hostgroup}\") | .members | @csv"`
+members=`do_api config hostgroup | jq -rc ".[] | select (.hostgroup_name==\"${hostgroup}\") | .members | .[]"`
+if [ -z "$members" ]; then
+  echo "Hostgroup: $hostgroup not found."
+  exit
+fi
+
+# Grab a copy of the hosts.json so we don't have to keep making calls over and over
+tmpJSON=`mktemp`
+
+# Create the hosts file
+create_host() {
+  host="$1"
+  echo "# Creating $host..."
+  echo "define host {"
+  while read key; do
+    val=`cat $tmpJSON | jq -r ".[] | select (.host_name==\"$host\") .${key} | if type==\"string\" then [.] else . end | .[]" | tr "\n" "," | sed -e "s/,$/\n/"`
+    echo "    $key $val"
+  done
+  echo "}"
+  echo ""
+}
+
+# Create the services file
+create_service() {
+  host="$1"
+  echo "# Creating $host services..."
+  echo "define host {"
+  while read key; do
+    val=`cat $tmpJSON | jq -r ".[] | select (.host_name==\"$host\") .${key} | if type==\"string\" then [.] else . end | .[]" | tr "\n" "," | sed -e "s/,$/\n/"`
+    echo "    $key $val"
+  done
+  echo "}"
+  echo ""
+}
+
+echo "# Creating new host config file for hostgroup: $hostgroup"
+do_api config host > $tmpJSON
+for member in $members; do
+  cat $tmpJSON | jq -r ".[] | select (.host_name==\"$member\") | keys | .[]" | create_host $member
+done
+echo "# Done with host configuration"
+echo "#"
+echo "#"
+echo "# Creating services"
+
+do_api object servicestatus > $tmpJSON
+for member in $members; do
+  cat $tmpJSON | jq ".servicestatus[] | select (.host_name==\"$member\")" | create_service $member
+done
+echo "# Done with services"
+echo "# Done"
+
+rm $tmpJSON