Send notifies by xmpp (jabber)

[sauron]

For this need installed sendxmpp

Put xmpp.sh in zabbix scripts directory. Create config file sendxmpprc:

#account password
[email protected] jabber

chown and chmod this file to zabbix user/

chown zabbix sendxmpprc 
chmod 0600 sendxmpprc

create xmpp.sh:

#!/bin/sh
echo "$3" | sendxmpp -f /path/sendxmpprc -s "$2" "$1"

where path - path to sendxmpprc.

chmod xmpp.sh:

Then add script in media, and add to need user notification.

[cameronsto]

This is very cool. For those trying to get this working, I had to install the Net::XMPP perl module by entering the cpan shell with:

perl -MCPAN -e shell 

then entering:

install Net::XMPP 

It will probably ask you to download a few other dependent modules, so enter yes for each of the prompts.

The instructions available at the sendxmpp site cover how to install it from there.

-cameron

[sauron]

yep I'm use emerge sendxmpp

[cameronsto]

Has anyone been able to get this to work with Google's Talk servers? I've tried many different scripts/libraries, but never get it to work. Seems like I can connect to jabber.org fine though.

-cameron

[sauron]

I'm think you need ssl enable connection

[DiedX]

very, very cool indeed

Thanks!

[Alexei]

Would you be interested to have it implemented into ZABBIX core?

[Nate Bell]

Would you be interested to have it implemented into ZABBIX core?

Absolutely! I made a custom script similar to the one used here, and IMO jabber alerts are much more useful during working hours than email alerts, since they automatically pop up on your screen as soon as the trigger gets tripped. My coworkers love them (well, sort of, since the alerts usually mean something went wrong). But my Jabber script is a bit of a hack, and something more core to Zabbix would be great!

Nate

[DiedX]

Makes that +1. I had this baby implemented yesterday, and it works like a charm

[axel]

Hi i have some problems wie use our own jabber server with only ssl.


zabbix@zabbix2:~$ sendxmpp -t -v -f /etc/zabbix/sendxmpprc asdasd
sendxmpp: config: 'password' => 'xxxxx'
sendxmpp: config: 'jserver' => 'abcd.net'
sendxmpp: config: 'port' => '5223'
sendxmpp: config: 'username' => 'axel'
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/sendxmpp line 365.
Error 'Connect': [HASH(0x8778e18)]

My be a problem with tls ?

[sauron]

Hi i have some problems wie use our own jabber server with only ssl.


zabbix@zabbix2:~$ sendxmpp -t -v -f /etc/zabbix/sendxmpprc asdasd
sendxmpp: config: 'password' => 'xxxxx'
sendxmpp: config: 'jserver' => 'abcd.net'
sendxmpp: config: 'port' => '5223'
sendxmpp: config: 'username' => 'axel'
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/sendxmpp line 365.
Error 'Connect': [HASH(0x8778e18)]

My be a problem with tls ?

username' => '[email protected]'
username shuld contain server name and @

[roger69]

Google Talk

I found this page:

http://www.pervasive-network.org/SPIP/GoogleTalk-with-perl

There are two different methods here, one using a Perl module, and another just relying on Net::XMPP, to send messages via XMPP through Google Talk.

Thought this might be useful. I was not able to get sendxmpp to work with Google Talk, but I am happily now using the Perl module and the provided sendgtalk.pl script to send notifications through Gtalk.

[erisan500]

Has anyone got this working on Centos 4.3 ? I'm messing with this for 2 weeks now without success. Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

EriSan

[alexander]

need help with zabbix+xmpp

Sorry for my english.
I'm trying to set up jabber notification, but on

sendxmpp -u zabbix -p zabbix -j jabber alexander@jabber

i'v got:

Usage: Authen::SASL::Cyrus::client_new(pkg, parent, service, host, ...) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Authen/SASL.pm line 74.

could anybody help me with it?

[Flu]

My method

Here's how I accomplished Jabber notifications when trying to set this up on my Zabbix server, which is running Fedora 7. This technique is being used to send messages to an Openfire Jabber server on our local network, but I imagine it will work with most any Jabber server.

I ended up installing the python-xmpp RPM on Fedora with the yum install python-xmpp command. I believe the website for this package is located at http://xmpppy.sourceforge.net/. Anyhow, I then modified the xsend.py example application that comes with it and shoved it inside of the /usr/local/bin/ directory. Here is the modified program which I called jabber_send.py.

You'll need to alter the [email protected], sender_jabber_username and sender_jabber_password lines to match the appropriate sender account information on your Jabber server.

#!/usr/bin/python
# $Id: xsend.py,v 1.8 2006/10/06 12:30:42 normanr Exp $
import sys,os,xmpp,time

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    print "Syntax: jabber_send JID text"
    sys.exit(0)

tojid=sys.argv[1]
text=' '.join(sys.argv[2:])


jidparams={}

jid=xmpp.protocol.JID('[email protected]')
cl=xmpp.Client(jid.getDomain(),debug=[])

jidparams['username']="sender_jabber_username"
jidparams['password']="sender_jabber_password"
jidparams['resource']="Zabbix"


con=cl.connect()
if not con:
    print 'could not connect!'
    sys.exit()
print 'connected with',con
auth=cl.auth(jidparams['username'],jidparams['password'],resource=jidparams['resource'])
if not auth:
    print 'could not authenticate!'
    sys.exit()
print 'authenticated using',auth

#cl.SendInitPresence(requestRoster=0)   # you may need to uncomment this for old server
id=cl.send(xmpp.protocol.Message(tojid,text))
print 'sent message with id',id

time.sleep(1)   # some older servers will not send the message if you disconnect immediately after sending

#cl.disconnect()

Next I created the xmpp.sh script inside of the /var/lib/zabbix directory, containing the following code:

#!/bin/sh
# If no argument was given on the commandline, stop
if [ $# -lt 2 ];then
    echo "Not enough arguments provided to $0"
    exit
fi

jabber_send.py "$1" "$3"

Finally, inside of the Zabbix web configuration utility, I added a new Script media type with Jabber Script as the description and entered xmpp.sh for the script name. In order for a user to get a Jabber notification, make sure you add the Jabber Script Media type to for the appropriate person under Administration/Users inside of the Zabbix web configuration panel.

There might be a much easier way to do this these days, but I set the above system up and it works flawlessly for me on my system.