More aasms hacking, v0.4 can now get the username and password from a config file, so you don't have to have them in the process name. (which is more or less why I started the whole exercise)

Finally setup my aasms module with nagios, which was really the point of the whole exercise.

First, define some new notification commands more or less like this:

define command{
	        command_name    notify-host-by-sms
			command_line    send-aa-sms --file=/etc/nagios3/aasms.config -d $CONTACTEMAIL$ -m "***** Nagios *****Notification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Host: $HOSTNAME$ State: $HOSTSTATE$ Address: $HOSTADDRESS$ Info: $HOSTOUTPUT$ Date/Time: $LONGDATETIME$"
}

# 'notify-service-by-email' command definition
define command{
	        command_name    notify-service-by-sms
		    command_line    send-aa-sms --file=/etc/nagios3/aasms.config -d $CONTACTEMAIL$ -m "***** Nagios *****Notification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service: $SERVICEDESC$ Host: $HOSTALIAS$ Address: $HOSTADDRESS$ State: $SERVICESTATE$ Date/Time: $LONGDATETIME$ Additional Info: $SERVICEOUTPUT$"
}

/etc/nagios3/aasms.config should be replaced with an appropriate config file for aasms readable only by nagios. Then define a new contact:

define contact{
		contact_name                    mstevens-sms
		alias                           Michael Stevens (SMS)
		service_notification_period     24x7
		host_notification_period        24x7
		service_notification_options    w,u,c,r
		host_notification_options       d,r
		host_notifications_enabled      1
		service_notifications_enabled   1
		service_notification_commands   notify-service-by-sms
		host_notification_commands      notify-host-by-sms
		email							your_mobile_here
}

Just add this contact to appropriate groups, and you should now get SMS notification of outages.

The key advantage of all this over the curl example on the A&A site is that you don't have to put your account details in the process name, and they can live privately in a nice config file instead.

Very minor tweaks to Proc::InvokeEditor, created a github repository for it, and uploaded the shiny new to CPAN.

While I was there, noticed some very old versions of some modules I had on CPAN, and deleted them.

Hooked on gadgets, and paying a mental price

(the cynic in me suggests the recent surge in articles on this topic is related to the forthcoming book from Nicholas Carr)