Nagios and IM notification

[Alex Dehaini]

Andy,

If you get it working, do let me know. I was reading a book where you can
implement IM notification by installing a jabber IM server on the same box
as nagios. I will look it up and try and install it and let you know.



On 10/25/07, Andy Harrison <aharrison at gmail.com> wrote:
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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?
>
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> 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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Alex Dehaini
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