Alert suggestion: RSS

[Steven Danz]

Would it be worth it to try to take say the statuswml.c and rework the 
output to generate
the XML needed for an RSS client?

Jeff McCombs wrote:

>Peeps,
>
>OK, so I've been hacking on this just to see, thinking that an RSS feed
>might be pretty useful..
>
>And what I've come up with isn't pretty, to say the least. It's slow.. But
>for those of you who want to hack on this, maybe improve it, go for it...
>
>This little _PHP_ app parses the nagios.log file, and reports on all
>services that are _not_ in a status of UP or OK. I'm sure there's a perl
>module out there that can do it, but for some reason, I can't write perl to
>save my life. :)
>
>Tack on ?oktoo=true to the URL, and it'll report on all services (not
>recommended, we have over 800 services, which means we have over 800 RSS
>items, and that's a horrible thing to do to your reader!)
>
>Edit the config.php file and set the following:
>    
>    $nagios['status_file']
>        This needs to be the full path to the status.log file Nagios spits
>out (e.g. /usr/local/nagios/var/status.log)
>    
>    $nagios['myurl']
>        This is the full http:// address to the nagios web interface.
>        e.g. http://nagios.mydomain.com/nagios/
>
>    $nagios['statcgi']
>        This is the full http:// address to the nagios status.cgi script
>        e.g. http://nagios.mydomain.com/nagios/cgi-bin/status.cgi
>
>    $nagios['extinfo]
>        This is the full http:// address to the nagios extinfo.cgi script
>        e.g. http://nagios.mydomain.com/nagios/cgi-bin/extinfo.cgi
>
>Just drop this into the Nagios cgi-bin/ directory. Note this is a giant,
>ugly HACK that I put together, no warranties express or implied, blah blah
>blah, may break systems, cause floods and other major disasters, blah blah..
>No support, you know the drill.
>
>    Hack it up as needed. It ought to give someone a start at least... Oh,
>and I wrote this to work with 1.2, not 2.x, since I don't have a 2.x status
>file to work with. Sorry, no support for DB's, though it could be done (and
>would probably be faster).
>
>    -Jeff
>
>
>
>
>  
>
>>From: <brianmas at highstream.net>
>>Date: Mon,  7 Mar 2005 14:32:31 -0500
>>To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Alert suggestion: RSS
>>
>>Quoting Marcel Smeets <mpgsmeets at gmail.com>:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Mmm, the second time someone tells it is simple to make a notification
>>>script for this. Well how??
>>>      
>>>
>>I already have something working, sorta, after just working on it a little bit
>>here and there today. I'll let the world know when I have something I think is
>>decent enough to use beyond my own machines.
>>
>>b
>>
>>    
>>
>>>On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 15:57:37 +0000, Mike Simkins <mike.simkins at gmail.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>I have seen something like this for files, should be a simple job to
>>>>write one, I would personally find it useful..
>>>>
>>>>On Mon,  7 Mar 2005 10:07:49 -0500, brianmas at highstream.net
>>>><brianmas at highstream.net> wrote:
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>Quoting Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se>:
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>>>brianmas at highstream.net wrote:
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I looked around and I didn't see it mentioned anywhere but RSS as a
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>reporting
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>mechanism might be sorta useful. When I am on my laptop at home I
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>>often
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>>don't
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>have a browser window with nagios open or a mail client open but I'll
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>>have
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>>an
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>RSS client going. Maybe I am the only one and it'll never get used
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>>though
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>>...
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>just an idea. I'd "write a patch" if I thought I could, btw.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>You don't have to write a patch. Just a notification script. It should
>>>>>>be fairly simple, really.
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>oh really? I honestly didn't look into notification stuff, the plugin API
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>is
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>simple as hell though, I'll have a go at this when I have some free time
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>this
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>week.
>>>>>
>>>>>thanks for the info.
>>>>>brian
>>>>>
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