Nagios Instant Message Notifications?

dave

dave

Hope this is the right place to post this...

Does anyone out there have Nagios set up to send notitications via instant messaging? (MSN Messenger/G-Talk/Yahoo IM/ICQ/etc.)

If so, I would really like to hear about how you got that set up.

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r-c-e said:
from the faq (for aim): http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=33&expand=false&showdesc=true
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Thanks for the response.

Do you have this up and running?

The reason I ask is...

As you notice on the link you sent me - that was posted over 6 years ago. I have tried many of these scripts from the nagios site recently and , the libraries are broken, or the scripts are no longer compatible with the libraries, or the scripts/libraries are no longer compatible with the protocols.
 
Without looking at the link:

Afaik you can use centerim to remotely send IM-Messages, so perhaps you can write a nagios action which sends IMs via centerim.
 
I just tested this out, works like a charm.

just install centerim from ports, then while it runs you can inject messages in the que like this:

echo "Nagios notify" | centerim -s msg -p msn -t msnaccout@messenger.net

You might want to add a user sticky bit on the bin since you have to exec it as the same user thats running the centerim.

chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/centerim

More information can be found in section 9. at the docs.

/usr/local/share/doc/centerim/README

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Well after playing around with it a bit to make it work perfekt i discovered that its mutch easier to hand build the message than making nagios execing the centerim command.

i woud recommend this instead.

/usr/bin/printf "OUT\nMSG\n`date +%s`\n`date +%s`\n\n$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert\nHost $HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$\n" >> /var/spool/nagios/.centerim/m$CONTACTADDRESS1$/offline

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