Nagios alerts via Windows Messenger

[Anthony Montibello]

if the goal is to notify a windows user and you know the windows command to
do this,

Why not use NRPE or NC_NEt's runscript to run a script that preforms
thisaction as part of your notification command?

Tony (Author of NC_NEt)

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Goltz, Jim (NIH/NLM/LHC) [C] <
jgoltz at mail.nih.gov> wrote:

> This may be an oft-asked question, but I haven't found any mention in
> recent archives.
>
> I'm experimenting with using the Windows Messenger service (NOT MSN
> Messenger) to send alerts.  Basically Nagios calls "smbclient -M
> some_host", and a message pops up on some_host with whatever text I pipe
> into smbclient.
>
> The problem is, using smbclient I need to specify which host to send the
> message to.  I'd much rather send the message to whichever host a
> particular user is logged into.  I know it's possible: running "net send
> username text_of_message" in a Windows command shell will do this.  But
> I don't know what SMB domain magic happens to tell "net" what machine
> "username" is logged into.
>
> Has anyone ever successfully done this, perchance?
>
> --
> Jim Goltz <jgoltz at mail.nih.gov>
> Contractor, Lockheed Martin
> National Library of Medicine
>
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