Nagios and IM notification

[Andy Harrison]

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On 10/25/07, Alex Dehaini  wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I have been using nagios for a couple of months and it's a wonderful NMS. I
> have successfully implemented email and SMS notification. I was wondering
> how I could send notifications using Instant Messaging particularly yahoo IM
> service.
>
> Basically, what I would like to see is this. A service or host goes down,
> nagios sends a notification to my yahoo IM, it appears as an offline if I am
> offline or a pop-up message if I am online. Can this be done?


I wrote one myself using the Net::OSCAR perl module, but I found that
it was extremely unreliable.  The biggest thing is that you can't
simply write a script that logs into aim, sends a message, then logs
out.  You'll get dinged for logging in too many times if you connect
more than about 8 times per hour (or something like that).

Eventually what I'm going to do is write a script that runs as a
daemon connected to aim all the time.  I'll just have a nagios
notification script plop a message file into a directory and have the
daemon watch for that directory for files and just send the contents
of each file in an instant message and then delete them.

It's just harder to write something that stays connected all the time.
 I don't have any experience programming for event loops like that.

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Andy Harrison
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