Alert suggestion: RSS

[Marc Powell]

Make your host/service-notify-by-email command also create or modify a
properly formatted RSS XML document with the information you want about
the alert. This XML document should of course be accessible via the web
by your RSS reader. Google returns many hits on "how to create rss
feed"s...

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Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Marcel Smeets
> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 12:09 PM
> To: Mike Simkins
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Alert suggestion: RSS
> 
> Mmm, the second time someone tells it is simple to make a notification
> script for this. Well how??
> 
> 
> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 15:57:37 +0000, Mike Simkins
<mike.simkins at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I have seen something like this for files, should be a simple job to
> > write one, I would personally find it useful..
> >
> > On Mon,  7 Mar 2005 10:07:49 -0500, brianmas at highstream.net
> > <brianmas at highstream.net> wrote:
> > > Quoting Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se>:
> > >
> > > > brianmas at highstream.net wrote:
> > > > > I looked around and I didn't see it mentioned anywhere but RSS
as
> a
> > > > reporting
> > > > > mechanism might be sorta useful. When I am on my laptop at
home I
> often
> > > > don't
> > > > > have a browser window with nagios open or a mail client open
but
> I'll have
> > > > an
> > > > > RSS client going. Maybe I am the only one and it'll never get
used
> though
> > > > ...
> > > > > just an idea. I'd "write a patch" if I thought I could, btw.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > You don't have to write a patch. Just a notification script. It
> should
> > > > be fairly simple, really.
> > >
> > > oh really? I honestly didn't look into notification stuff, the
plugin
> API is
> > > simple as hell though, I'll have a go at this when I have some
free
> time this
> > > week.
> > >
> > > thanks for the info.
> > > brian
> > >
> > >
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