nagios-notification-google-calendar 0.2.0

Notifications via Google Calendar Nagios plugin

Installation

• Obtain your copy of source code from git repository: git clone https://github.com/vint21h/nagios-notification-google-calendar.git. Or download latest release from https://github.com/vint21h/nagios-notification-google-calendar/tags.
• Run python ./setup.py install from repository source tree or unpacked archive under root user. Or use pip: pip install nagios-notification-google-calendar.

Configuration

• Read and understand Nagios documentation.
• Create Nagios commands definitions like this:

# 'notify-host-by-sms' command
define command{
    command_name    notify-host-by-sms
    command_line    /usr/bin/notification_google_calendar.py -u $CONTACTNAME$ -m "Host '$HOSTALIAS$' is $HOSTSTATE$ - Info: $HOSTOUTPUT$" -C $CONTACTADDRESS1$ -t $CONTACTADDRESS2$
}

# 'notify-by-sms' command
define command{
    command_name    notify-by-sms
    command_line    /usr/bin/notification_google_calendar.py -u $CONTACTNAME$ -m "$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ $HOSTNAME$ $SERVICEDESC$ $SERVICESTATE$ $SERVICEOUTPUT$ $LONGDATETIME$" -C $CONTACTADDRESS1$ -t $CONTACTADDRESS2$
}

• Go to https://code.google.com/apis/console/ and create new project.

• Enable calendar API for project.

• Create an OAuth 2.0 client ID for project with Installed application type and download JSON client secrets file.

• Copy /usr/share/doc/nagios-notification-google-calendar/notification_google_calendar.ini to /etc/nagios with your settings. Attention: nagios user must have notification_google_calendar.ini read permissions, and credentials directory read/write permissions.

• Modify contacts definitions:

  • Add addressX option to contact definition with contact google calendar ID.
  • Add addressX option to contact definition with contact preferred timezone (in human readable format from TZ database). This is dirty hack, but i don't know how do this better way.
  • Get and save credentials by run notification_google_calendar.py with -g option.
  • Add commands to the lists of service and host notifications commands for contact.
  • Configure google calendar for mobile devices.

Licensing

nagios-notification-google-calendar is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For complete license text see COPYING file.

Contacts

Project Website: https://github.com/vint21h/nagios-notification-google-calendar

Author: Alexei Andrushievich <vint21h@vint21h.pp.ua>