sending notifications to windows instant messe nger

[Andreas Ericsson]

Neil wrote:
> I tried your got and the code on the website, when I try to login using 
> my first hotmail account, my other GUI hotmail account which is 
> connected in WindowsXP doesn't change the status to ONLINE. Message 
> doesn't get sent too but without any errors? I have even tcpdump my 
> connection on port 1863, and if I intentionally change my password to a 
> wrong one, the python module tells me incorrect password which means, 
> it's properly working.
> Any ideas?

I believe MSN utilizes some sort of stateful protocol. If that's 
correct, you'd have to use a daemon to maintain the connection in order 
for it to work properly.

> Thanks.
> Sam Terburg - Luna.nl writes:
> 
>> after reading this i got curious.
>> clicking the link specified i found http://msnp.sourceforge.net/
>> below is a simple script that just sends 1 message.
>> i'm planning on writing a more intelligent script that can alse receive
>> messages, which will be interpreted into nagios commands, so that you can
>> acknowledge the critical_notification nagios just send you by simply
>> replying with 'acknowledged'.
>> the login (and sending the message) takes about 8 seconds. quite long.
>> so i should probably write a client/server version.
>> i'll post it to the list when i got it all working.
>> but that could take a month or so. i don't have mush time.
>> Greetings,
>> Sam Terburg
>> Luna.nl
>>  
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/python2.2
>> import msnp
>> import time
>> class MsnListener(msnp.SessionCallbacks):
>>     def state_changed(self, state):
>>         if state == msnp.States.ONLINE:
>>             msn.start_chat('sam at luna.nl')
>>     def chat_started(self, chat):
>>         chat.send_message('a message')
>>         global hasSend
>>         hasSend=True
>>
>> msn = msnp.Session(MsnListener())
>> msn.login('nagios_luna at hotmail.com', '*****')
>> hasSend=False
>> while not hasSend:
>>     msn.process(chats=True)
>>     time.sleep(1)
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil" 
>> <neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org>
>> To: "Tedman Eng" <teng at dataway.com>
>> Cc: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 08:17
>> Subject: [Nagios-users] Re: sending notifications to windows instant 
>> messe
>> nger
>>
>>> Hi Tedman,
>>> I actually found the perl module but there is very few documentation 
>>> about
>>> it. I'm still trying to understand how it works but it's really tough.
>>> This is the link where I found Perl MSN module:
>>> http://www.hypothetic.org/docs/msn/resources/projects.php
>>> If you have any more information, that will be really awesome.
>>> Thanks again.
>>>
>>> Tedman Eng writes:
>>> > I have done so with IRC and a perl IRC module.  I'm no perl monk, but
>>
>> the
>>
>>> > sample script provided with the module got me far enough to be able to
>>
>> send
>>
>>> > a message via Nagios, which is really all that's needed.  There are 
>>> perl
>>> > modules for MSN Messenger as well, which could probably just as easily
>>
>> be
>>
>>> > adapted to send messages from Nagios.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >> -----Original Message-----
>>> >> From: Neil [mailto:neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org]
>>> >> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 1:03 PM
>>> >> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>> >> Subject: [Nagios-users] sending notifications to windows instant
>>> >> messenger
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Hey guys,
>>> >>
>>> >> has anyone of you successfully implemented sending of
>>> >> notification to a
>>> >> Windows Instant Messenger? If so, can you send some links on
>>> >> how I can
>>> >> implement it. I found answers in Nagios FAQ but only for AOL
>>> >> and Yahoo
>>> >> Messenger.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks in advance.
>>> >>
>>> >> Neil
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>

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