system: remove legacy notifications with monit alternatives

[lopsch]

The actual integration for growl notifications is using the UDP:9887 protocol. This seems to be superseded by the GNTP which uses TCP:23053.

There is already a usable version in pfSense which uses Net_Growl. As far as I can see Net_Growl is available in ports.

As I'm not into PHP I just tried to apply the patch und download Net_Growl into the include directory for testing. I came as far as trying to send a message where it bails out not having mbstring available.

So I assume the packages Net_Growl depends on are not available at all:

• mbstring extension
• pcre extension
• SPL extension
• mcrypt extension (optional)

I would build a new image including the patches, Net_Growl and its dependencies for testing myself but to be honest I don't know where all the knobs are that I need to turn.

If someone could point me in the right direction and there is interest in an integration update I could try to contribute a PR.

Best regards and sorry if the issue is not correct/missing information.

[fichtner]

Hi @lopsch,

The current notification framework is scheduled for a full removal in 18.7. We already imported Monit into the core package for this reason. I don't see this code going anywhere because of it. Ok?

Cheers,
Franco

[lopsch]

Hi @fichtner,

thanks for the clarification. Will there be similar notification options through monit?

Best regards

[fichtner]

Sorry for the delay! Monit is fully customizable, e.g. https://mmonit.com/wiki/MMonit/PushoverNotification

[fichtner]

Closing in favour of #2919