Andy, If you get it working, do let me know. I was reading a book where you can implement IM notification by installing a jabber IM server on the same box as nagios. I will look it up and try and install it and let you know. <div>On 10/25/07, Andy Harrison <<a href="mailto:aharrison@gmail.com">aharrison@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/25/07, Alex Dehaini wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I have been using nagios for a couple of months and it's a wonderful NMS. I > have successfully implemented email and SMS notification. I was wondering > how I could send notifications using Instant Messaging particularly yahoo IM > service. > > Basically, what I would like to see is this. A service or host goes down, > nagios sends a notification to my yahoo IM, it appears as an offline if I am > offline or a pop-up message if I am online. Can this be done? I wrote one myself using the Net::OSCAR perl module, but I found that it was extremely unreliable. The biggest thing is that you can't simply write a script that logs into aim, sends a message, then logs out. You'll get dinged for logging in too many times if you connect more than about 8 times per hour (or something like that). Eventually what I'm going to do is write a script that runs as a daemon connected to aim all the time. I'll just have a nagios notification script plop a message file into a directory and have the daemon watch for that directory for files and just send the contents of each file in an instant message and then delete them. It's just harder to write something that stays connected all the time. I don't have any experience programming for event loops like that. - -- Andy Harrison public key: 0x67518262 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: <a href="http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org">http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org</a> iD8DBQFHIMn1NTm8fWdRgmIRAtfQAKC7H1MPlf/a996/WmWu09PeE0j1LgCg7XHj NyDnTuqXgR1l1o63jhKM1M4= =LY/m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> <a href="http://get.splunk.com/">http://get.splunk.com/</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users </a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div> -- Alex Dehaini Developer Site - <a href="http://www.alexdehaini.com">www.alexdehaini.com</a> Email - <a href="mailto:alexdehaini@gmail.com">alexdehaini@gmail.com</a>