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Adding MSN notifications to Argus

I am a us­er of Ar­gus as a mon­i­tor­ing soft­ware. Since it's very flex­i­ble and easy to ex­tend, I want­ed to add MSN alert­s, the same way I had added SMS alerts a while ago. It was eas­i­er than I thought!

  1. In­­stall msnlib

  2. In­stall the ex­am­ple msnbot, mod­i­fied so do_­work is like this:

    def do_work():
       """
       Here you do your stuff and send messages using m.sendmsg()
       This is the only place your code lives
       """
    
       # wait a bit for everything to settle down (sync taking efect
       # basically)
       time.sleep(15)
    
       msg=sys.stdin.read()
       for d in sys.argv[3].split('+'):
               print m.sendmsg(d,msg)
    
    
       # give time to send the messages
       time.sleep(30)
    
       # and then quit
       quit()
  3. De­fine a cus­tom no­ti­fi­ca­tion in ar­gus like this:

    Method "msn" {
       command: /usr/local/bin/msnbot alerts@mycompany mypass %R >/tmp/XXX 2>&1
       send: %M\n
    }
  4. Wher­ev­er you want MSN no­ti­fi­ca­tion­s, add this (on no­ti­fy or es­ca­late di­rec­tives, us­ing as many guys MSN ad­dress­es as you need):

    msn:admin1@hotmai1.com+admin2@hotmai1.com

That's it.

phone number lookup / 2011-12-03 22:23:

this is really interesting viewpoint on the subject i might add

employment background check / 2011-12-27 23:29:

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cell phone lookup / 2012-01-17 05:50:

nice


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