Custom Notifies

[Jeremy Kister]

On 7/15/2008 3:49 PM, Sagi Brody wrote:
> However, I'll probably be using 1 generic "service Prog{.." type service
> to execute a script to contact the server to check if sees anything is
> down. I'd like the unack page to actually display details obtained from
> the program. How can I do this?

not tested:

### on server being monitored:
echo "anotify	6969/tcp # for argus notifications" >> /etc/services
echo "anotify stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/cat /usr/bin/cat 
/tmp/notify.argus" >> /etc/inetd.conf
kill -HUP `ps -ef | awk '/inetd/ { print $2 }'


### in argus config:
    Service TCP {
     hostname: remote_server_name_or_ip_address
     label: local_notifies
     port:  6969
     uname: local_notifies
     nexpect: ALARM:
     pluck:   ALARM:(.+)
     messagedn: %o{ip::hostname} says: [%v]
    }

argusctl hup


# after argus has reloaded, on the client machine, do something like

echo "ALARM: my head hurts" >> /tmp/notify.argus

# this should make argus send you a page that looks like
10000 1/Jul 00:00 - machine says: [my head hurts]


# and a few minutes later

rm /tmp/notify.argus

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Jeremy Kister
http://jeremy.kister.net./