Monitoring::Spooler - Notification queue for Zabbix, Nagios, et.al.
Monitoring::Spooler - a notification queue for Zabbix, Nagios and other montioring systems
First you need to sign up at a suitable text and/or voice provider, e.g. sipgate.
You'll need the credentials for this provider later.
See below for an example configuration. Place it at /etc/mon-spooler/spooler.conf.
Adjust DBFile (path to SQLite database, needs to be writeable by cronjob and webapp), TemplatePath, StaticPath and the list of transports. Set the credentials from the previous step here. Remove any transport you don't have credentials for.
Run the bootstrap command:
mon-spooler.pl bootstrap --name=<newgrp>
This will create an initial group and set things up.
WARNING: Make sure the database file is owned by the user service the webinterface and also accessible by the user execution your cronjobs, e.g. www-data.
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/lib/mon-spooler/
Create at least one cronjob here. If you have set-up an provider which supports both text and phone messages you should set up two cronjobs here, otherwise create only one for either phone or test messages.
At the moment there is no easy built-in interface to populate the notification queue with a set of contacts. The recommended way is to use App::Standby for that. If you opt not to, then I'd recommend using bare SQL:
sqlite3 /var/lib/mon-spooler/db.sqlite3
Set up your monitoring to send notifications the this external command:
mon-spooler.pl create -g<group_id> -t<{text|phone}> -m<message>
If you've created only one group and only want to send text messages this could look like this:
mon-spooler.pl create -g1 -ttext -m<MSG>
How you pass MSG depends on your monitoring solution. Take a look at the next subsection on setup with Zabbix.
To allow Zabbix to trigger external notifications you'll need some kind of wrapper script since Zabbix is very strict on how and where it'll place it's notifications.
First you'll need to set AlertScriptsPath in you zabbix_server.conf to some exisiting path. If it is already set remember this path.
Next you'll need to place a simple wrapper script (e.g. a shell script) into this directory. The script, named e.g. ms_wrapper.sh, could look like this:
#!/bin/bash mon-spooler.pl create -g$1 -ttext -m"$2"
Next you'll need to add a new Media Type in Zabbix with the type Script and the Script name set to ms_wrapper.sh.
Zabbix will always pass the media property (e.g. number) first, and then the message.
Since this distribution does it's own contact/escalation handling we don't care about the destination number and will use the destination field to multiplex between the different groups. Each of which will have it's own contact list and escalation handling.
For each group you need to create an new use in Zabbix. Name it like <group>.queue, e.g. admins.queue and developers.queue. For each of these "queue-users" you need to add a new media w/ the newly defined type and an "Send To" value which matches the group id within Monitoring::Spooler.
Afterwards you'll need to create a new action with an appropriate name, an event source of triggers, no escalations, a subject and concise message as well as recovery messages. The "operation" should send a message to new appropriate "queue user".
To setup nagios, or any nagios compatible product like icinga, shinken or naemon, is pretty straight forward. Just call "mon-spooler.pl create -g<Group-Id> -t<text|phone> -m<MSG>" like you'd call any other external notification script.
More examples on nagios will follow shortly.
In this optional step you can set up the included webinterface and http API.
CGI and PSGI endpoints are provided. Give the usual usage scenario of this App an CGI employment should be fine, but if you run into any performance issues w/ the web app you should first try to run it under any PSGI wrapper, e.g. Starman.
<Monitoring> <Spooler> NegatingTrigger = 1 DBFile = /var/lib/mon-spooler/db.sqlite3 <Frontend> TemplatePath = /var/lib/mon-spooler/tpl StaticPath = /var/lib/mon-spooler/res </Frontend> <Transport> <Sipgate> Username = Test Password = Test Priority = 1 </Sipgate> <Smstrade> Apikey = xyz Route = basic Priority = 99 </Smstrade> <FreeSwitch> hostname = localhost port = 8021 password = pass priority = 1 url = sofia/gateway/provider.tld # url = freetdm/1/ defaultaudio = /var/lib/mon-spooler/audio/default_alarm_multi.wav </FreeSwitch> <Pjsua> sipid = sip:user@sipgate.de registrar = sip:sipgate.de realm = * username = user password = pass outbound = sip:sipgate.de stunsrv = stun.sipgate.net:10000 Priority = 99 </Pjsua> </Transport> </Spooler> </Monitoring>
This distribution is much like the commerical PagerDuty service. Only that it's free, self-hosted and fully customizable.
If anything goes wrong have a look at the logfile at /var/log/mon-spooler-web.log or /tmp/mon-spooler-weg.log.
Dominik Schulz <tex@cpan.org>
This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Dominik Schulz.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install Monitoring::Spooler, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Monitoring::Spooler
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Monitoring::Spooler
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.