Notify via Growl?

[Mathieu Gagné]

Hi,

On 5/20/09 1:00 PM, Israel Brewster wrote:
> I have nagios running on an openBSD box, and I would like to use
> Growl's network notification options to pop-up alert messages on my
> Mac for certain situations. Does anyone have a script or program that
> can do this already? I've looked around a bit, but all I've found seem
> to assume that nagios is running on the Mac, which is not the case
> here. I've got the Growl dev tools, which come with a python script it
> looks like I could hack to work, but before I spend too much time on
> that I wanted to see if it has already been done. Thanks.

1) Install Net::Growl from CPAN: 
http://search.cpan.org/~nmcfarl/Net-Growl-0.99/
2) Allow network notification in Growl on your Mac and set a password.
3) Create a notify script using it based on the provided example.
4) Enjoy! :)

--
Mathieu

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