Nagios Alerter¶ ↑

Ruby library for sending heartbeat messages to a Nagios server.

This is a wrapper for kbedell’s Ruby implementation of the Nagios send_nsca C libary.

Install¶ ↑

gem install nagios_alerter

Usage¶ ↑

You can create a Nagios::Alerter and call #send_alert whenever you want to send a Nagios message. There are a couple ways you can set up the Alerter:

Option 0: Using the constructor¶ ↑

You can set up all of the details of your alerts when you create the Alerter:

@alerter = Nagios::Alerter.new(:hostname => "some.domain.com",
                               :service_name => "my-alerter",
                               :return_code => SendNsca::STATUS_OK,
                               :status => "TEST")
# ...
@alerter.send_alert(:host => "nagios.domain.com", :port => 5667)

Option 1: Using the instance variables¶ ↑

You can also use Ruby’s setter methods to set or tweak your Alerter details:

@alerter = Nagios::Alerter.new
@alerter.hostname     = "some.domain.com"
@alerter.service_name = "my-alerter"
@alerter.return_code  = SendNsca::STATUS_OK
@alerter.status       = "TEST"
# ...
@alerter.send_alert(:host => "nagios.domain.com", :port => 5667)

Option 2: Using the class method¶ ↑

You don’t have to create an Alerter if you don’t want to, you can use the class method instead:

Nagios::Alerter.send_alert(:host => "nagios.domain.com",
                           :port => 5667,
                           :hostname => "some.domain.com",
                           :service_name => "my-alerter",
                           :return_code => SendNsca::STATUS_OK,
                           :status => "TEST")

Global settings¶ ↑

Most users have only one Nagios server, so having to explicitly pass the host and port information to every #send_alert call can be very redundant. Instead, you can use Nagios::Connection to set up a globally accessible Nagios server. For example:

Nagios::Connection.instance.host = "nagios.somedomain.com"
Nagios::Connection.instance.port = 5667

Nagios::Connection is a Singleton class, so you need to use #instance when you access it. You can set it up in your project’s environment and have all further calls to #send_alert use those settings (except when using the class method).

Making Changes¶ ↑

# add/remove files
rake manifest
# make changes and reinstall to local system
rake install
# update version number in Rakefile and rebuild gemspec
rake build_gemspec

License¶ ↑

The MIT License

Copyright © 2010 Dana Merrick

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