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Nristen's (g)log
2021-08-19
For my personal equipment (servers, routers, etc) I currently use monit to monitor if devices go down or if ports stop responding. I like monit because it does not use very many system resources.
Monit by default sends alerts through email so the problem I had was I would only get outage notifications when I checked my email. I have gotten into the habit of checking my email accounts daily and as such, I have removed the notifications from my computer and phone... This results in a much more peaceful day with much less distrations to take away from my focus. Since I have my own XMPP server now, I thought it would be a perfect option for getting outage notifications to me.
I found a small command line package for send XMPP messages: sendxmpp which was available through the package manager on the raspberry pi I was using for this.
Monit Config:
check host pi-hole address 192.168.1.147
if failed
port 80 protocol http
for 3 cycles
then exec /usr/local/bin/monit-xmpp
if failed
port 53 protocol dns
for 3 cycles
then exec /usr/local/bin/monit-xmpp
My script at /usr/local/bin/monit-xmpp:
#!/bin/bash echo -e "$MONIT_HOST\nService: $MONIT_SERVICE\nAlert: $MONIT_DESCRIPTION" | sendxmpp -f /root/.sendxmpprc -t myxmppaddress@xmppserver.net
A couple notes regarding the above bash script which runs the sendxmpp command.
So far this is working very well for me.
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