That is the funny thing, I am sure I can use Jabber or another IM server installed beside the nagios server. We offer services to clients and these clients can use yahoo or hotmail IM services, we want nagios to be able to talk to these IM servers. Alex <div>On 10/26/07, Sebastian Ries <<a href="mailto:Sebastian.Ries@dtnet.de">Sebastian.Ries@dtnet.de</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi > 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? You Could use CenterICQ / CenterIM to arcieve this. Add an account for your nagios, run CenterIM in screen (be sure that it ist running) and write a script that sends a message via command line. <a href="http://www.centerim.org/index.php/Main_Page">http://www.centerim.org/index.php/Main_Page</a> Regards Sebastian Ries -- ------------------------------------------------------------ DT Netsolution GmbH - Talaeckerstr. 30 - D-70437 Stuttgart Tel: +49-711-849910-36 Fax: +49-711-849910-936 WEB: <a href="http://www.dtnet.de/">http://www.dtnet.de/</a> email: <a href="mailto:Sebastian.Ries@dtnet.de">Sebastian.Ries@dtnet.de</a> </blockquote> </div> -- Alex Dehaini Developer Site - <a href="http://www.alexdehaini.com">www.alexdehaini.com</a> Email - <a href="mailto:alexdehaini@gmail.com">alexdehaini@gmail.com</a>