Nagios alerts via Windows Messenger

[Ciro Iriarte]

2008/4/24, Goltz, Jim (NIH/NLM/LHC) [C] <jgoltz at mail.nih.gov>:
> 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
>
>

We use smbclient for notification and just specify the user instead of
the machine, we have a Windows Domain, probably that affects the
behaviour.

Ciro

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