How to get Zabbix push notifications on iPhone

[untergeek]

I've tried centerim on our certification zabbix server. It "queues" messages, which for an IM client is awfully odd. It waits for up to 60 seconds before sending the message.

This is not horrible, but I get prowl notifications almost instantaneously. I get GoogleTalk notifications instantaneously (using the perl script and module).

centerim does intrigue, however, with its ability to send to multiple services. I will have to create a front-end to see if I can get it to work.

My question, however, is if it queues, what happens if I get a "Pager storm," i.e. dozens of triggers at once? We have this condition sometimes. Would it mark the sending account as spam? Will they come in a batch, rather than as single messages? If single messages, will they be delayed so as not to be spam? What if I try to send 10 people the same message at once, will it send those as a batch?

These are interesting questions, which hopefully have good answers.

[qix]

Moved 301

Hi Untergeek,

Since this whole Centerim discussion is getting a life of its own, I created a new thread here: http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?p=77272.

Could you post your experiences so we can figure out the best way of doing this? (if any)

[adamcole83]

ERROR Can't locate LWP/UserAgent.pm

Since posting this I have installed libwww-perl, and now I get this error...

Notification not posted: LWP will support https URLs if either Crypt::SSLeay or IO::Socket::SSL
is installed.

[untergeek]

You have to install the LWP::UserAgent

Depending on your OS, that could mean a simple package add (RPM, DEB, PKG, what have you), or you can always do a CPAN compile if you have access there.

perl -MCPAN -e shell

When you get to a prompt, do:

install LWP::UserAgent

That's what I did. If these commands are proving more difficult, this isn't the correct forum to get CPAN assistance.

[bwells]

New to Prowl

I have followed the instructions contained in this post and have run into two issues.

The first was that no prowl notification was sent, so I redid everything...

Now the error is different - "Can't open /etc/zabbix/alert.d/prowl.pl"

I am somewhat new to Linux, but not novice (using Ubuntu), and know this shouldn't be that hard to get running...

Also in reference to the modified script referenced here, how are you generating the Output.log for zabbix?

Just a note, I can hand the variables directly to the prowl.pl script and it works as intended...

Thanks