Setting up e-mail notifications.

[Rico Gloeckner]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:01:51AM -0500, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:
> I'm having a quick look at RH Linux 7.3 right now, and it includes micq, a
> command line interface to ICQ.  I've not played with it, so YMMV.  If it
> doesn't do exactly what you want, you might want to try wrapping it in an
> expect script.
> 
> Other than that, you might want to browse Sourceforge or Freshmeat to see
> what possible AIM/ICQ/MSN/YM/etc programs exist which support input from the
> command line.  (If I personally saw benefit to this approach, I'd be
> investigating it.  But paging/SMS work fine for what I/we need.  :)

Personally, i wouldnt trust ICQ or any other IM since they send Messages
unencrypted and via a server which is not controlled by me.

My personal Preference would be to use Jabber; set up an own jabberd
(http://www.jabber.org/admin/adminguide.html), use one of the very basic
HighLevel Libs (Net::Jabber for example) and code a simple Program
which just sends the Message (feel free to use <http://pjab.micq.org> as
Prototype) or even better, use Headline Support.

Advantages: Jabber was designed for more then IM, so you have way more
Possibilities to develop good Frontends for it; User->Server Encryption
can be enabled; You can easily install your own Jabber-Server, making it
unreachable for the world; There are already Dozens of Clients for every
Platform, the Coders dont need to rev-engineer the Protocol.

I actually would already have written something for plugging Nagios into
Jabber, but i didnt have any time until yet. ;-(


	-rg
	(aka <mc at micq.org>)


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