Host/Service Status Totals via SMS/pager?

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Sir,

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 02:12:53PM -0800, Jon Lyons wrote:
> 
> Hi,  

> Anyone have any suggestions on how I can get the Host & Service status totals(The small tables at the top of service problems)
> and a list of the hosts/services in a critical state in a plain text 
> format? (ie..Up 165 Down 30)

> I've written 2 scripts that allow me to acknowledge host/service 
> problems via my Nextel phone.
> It'd be great if I could get a simple quick stats of all 
> hosts/services.....(I have VERY basic perl skills).....
>  

It seems to me you have two challenges

1 Getting the totals

This may go part of the way

perl -e 'open(F, "status.log"); $/ = ""; $x = <F>; $h++ while $x 
=~/CRITICAL|DOWN/gs; print $h. "\n" '

and can almost certainly be refined and scriptified.


2 Having them displayed/notified on some stimulus  (eg state change ==> 
gloabl service handler ==> get totals | notify)

Part 2 is left as 'exercise to the reader'.


If you really want to read this stuff from the status.cgi you could also 
use LWP but this would take more work.

Yours sincerely.


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Stanley Hopcroft
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