Notifications using talk.google.com

[dabd]

Hi,

I cannot use the built-in jabber support since 'telnet jabber.org 5222' shows jabber server is not acessible. However I can 'telnet talk.google.com 443'. Is there a simple setup for notifications through talk.google.com?

Thanks.

[untergeek]

No. But you can use a perl script someone wrote to accomplish this. This is the last iteration I have found and I modified it to send from Zabbix. There are a few dependencies (hope you can figure them out) and you need to put this script in the external scripts location defined in zabbix_server.conf, and it needs to be executable by the zabbix user. You need to create a new media-type with this script as the target. That's about it. Ask more questions if you need them. This has worked well for me.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

#
# script to send jabber message to Google Talk Instant Messaging
#   using XMPP protocol and SASL PLAIN authentication.
#
# author: Thus0 <[email protected]>
# Copyright (c) 2005, Thus0 <[email protected]>. All rights reserved.
#
# released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

use strict;
use Net::XMPP;

# Username of "FROM" user
my $username = "FROM_USER";
my $password = "FROM_PASS";

## Configuration
## 3 Arguments will be passed. 
## $ARGV[0] username (Google Talk username minus the @gmail.com part)
## $ARGV[1] Subject
## $ARGV[2] Message

my $to = "$ARGV[0]";
my $body = "$ARGV[1]\n\n$ARGV[2]\n";

my $resource = "ACCOUNT_NAME";
# Presume where ACCOUNT_NAME@$componentname as below.

## End of configuration

#------------------------------------

# Google Talk & Jabber parameters :

my $hostname = 'talk.google.com';
my $port = 5222;
my $componentname = 'gmail.com';
my $connectiontype = 'tcpip';
my $tls = 1;

#------------------------------------

my $Connection = new Net::XMPP::Client();

# Connect to talk.google.com
my $status = $Connection->Connect(
       hostname => $hostname, port => $port,
       componentname => $componentname,
       connectiontype => $connectiontype, tls => $tls);

if (!(defined($status))) {
   print "ERROR:  XMPP connection failed.\n";
   print "        ($!)\n";
   exit(0);
}

# Change hostname
my $sid = $Connection->{SESSION}->{id};
$Connection->{STREAM}->{SIDS}->{$sid}->{hostname} = $componentname;

# Authenticate
my @result = $Connection->AuthSend(
       username => $username, password => $password,
       resource => $resource);

if ($result[0] ne "ok") {
   print "ERROR: Authorization failed: $result[0] - $result[1]\n";
   exit(0);
}

# Send message
$Connection->MessageSend(
       to => "$to\@$componentname", body => $body,
       resource => $resource);

[dabd]

I used a similar script but I had to use port 443 with SSL and it works fine. Thanks.

[Zaniwoop]

I worked around this by using jabber.org as my jabber server.

you need to create an account and send your gtalk users a buddy request, which they must accept.

Then it just works. No scripts.

[uxadm]

what about web-proxy?

Hello,
I cannot use this script (above). Here is an error:
---------------------------------------------
./conn2talk.pl "uname2r" "test" "test2"
Use of uninitialized value $args{"file"} in lc at /usr/share/perl5/Net/XMPP/Debug.pm line 154.
ERROR: XMPP connection failed.
(Invalid argument)
---------------------------------------------

May be my web proxy make a problem? I can use Gtalk Account with Pidgin from the same system. how can I test it without Zabbix GUI? Please help me.
Thanks