Re: monit and xmpp notifications

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On Dec 1, 2004, at 3:34 PM, Dirk-Jan C. Binnema wrote:

> I use monit to manage some servers, but in addition to email alerts, I
> would also like to be able to send IM (xmpp) alerts. I wrote a little
> program called sendxmpp (http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/sendxmpp) to
> send such message (similar to mail(1)).
>
> Now I'd like to know if I could integrate this somehow with monit. I
> think it would be a winning combination. Of course I can use the email
> alerts and procmail, but there should be a more elegant way?

This should be easy, simply add an exec statement in one of the 
if-tests. Upon an error monit will call the program defined in the exec 
statement *and* send an email. Such as in this example:

 check file httpd.conf path /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf
     if changed sha1 checksum
        then exec "/usr/local/sendxmpp"

This brings up another idea. Should we create a way to add alert 
methods to monit based on the same delegation-pattern we use for 
protocol-tests?  Okay, you _can_ do it by utilizing exec as shown 
above, but a more embedded option could be nice to have.

I.e. a way to write a small C-stub to delegate the alert functionality. 
Not sure how this interface will look in practice but I think the idea 
is interesting since there are lots of other alert transport mechanisms 
than SMTP today. I'm interested to know what others think about such an 
idea. What should be the input and output parameters to such a stub 
etc?

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Jan-Henrik Haukeland
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