Installation

• Obtain your copy of source code from the git repository: $ git clone https://github.com/vint21h/nagios-notification-jabber.git. Or download the latest release from https://github.com/vint21h/nagios-notification-jabber/tags/.

• Run $ python ./setup.py install from the repository source tree or unpacked archive. Or use pip: $ pip install nagios-notification-jabber.

Configuration

• Read and understand Nagios documentation.

• Create Nagios commands definitions like this:

# "host-notify-by-jabber" command
define command
{
    command_name    host-notify-by-jabber
    command_line    /usr/bin/notification_jabber.py -r $CONTACTPAGER$ -m "Host '$HOSTALIAS$' is $HOSTSTATE$ - Info: $HOSTOUTPUT$"
}

# "service-notify-by-jabber" command
define command
{
    command_name    service-notify-by-jabber
    command_line    /usr/bin/notification_jabber.py -r $CONTACTPAGER$ -m "$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ $HOSTNAME$ $SERVICEDESC$ $SERVICESTATE$ $SERVICEOUTPUT$ $LONGDATETIME$"
}

• Add to your contact definition option pager with your Jabber ID value and add to service_notification_commands and host_notification_commands contact definition options service-notify-by-jabber and host-notify-by-jabber values respectively.

• Copy /usr/share/doc/nagios-notification-jabber/notification_jabber.ini to /etc/nagios with your nagios bot credentials. Attention: nagios user must have notification_jabber.ini read permissions.

nagios-notification-jabber is able to send message to MUC rooms without any additional configuration, just specify MUC room ID as a notification recipient. Also yu can specify notification resource just by adding it to JID in the config file: jid = nagios@example.com/bot

Licensing

nagios-notification-jabber is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For complete license text see COPYING file.

Contacts

Project Website: https://github.com/vint21h/nagios-notification-jabber/

Author: Alexei Andrushievich <vint21h@vint21h.pp.ua>

For other authors list see AUTHORS file.