Re: xmpp based nagios notifications

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On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 21:38 -0500, David Nalley wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:42 PM, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 16:39 -0600, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> >> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:17 PM, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > And now I get nagios notices as popups in my jabber client(s).
> >>
> >> On a side note, would it make sense to have a Fedora XMPP server?
> >> That would allow people to use <fas id>@fedoraproject.org as a XMPP
> >> ID.  There are a number of good XMPP servers already packaged for
> >> Fedora and/or EPEL, the hard part would be choosing one and figuring
> >> out how to get authentication against FAS working.
> >
> > I don't think it would make sense for us to have our own xmpp server for
> > users. But it may make sense for us to have our own for services.
> >
> > there are lots of good, public, free jabber/xmpp servers and there's no
> > good reason for us to get into that business or the support headaches it
> > creates.
> >
> > But for our services it could make sense for us to run one for service
> > accounts.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > -sv
> 
> 
> So I have started looking at this - and currently only jabberd (really
> jabberd2) and ejabberd are packaged in Fedora and EPEL, which
> simplifies things a bit.
> 
> jabberd2 is written in C, and appears to have been abandoned 6-7 years
> ago, though it seemingly was picked up and is currently maintained by
> a single developer. Sadly documentation has not kept pace with
> development, and the current documentation is 6-7 years old.
> 
> ejabberd is written in erlang, and appears to be one of the better
> supported xmpp server implementations. Aside from being written in
> erlang, another downside is that it requires either postgres or mysql,
> which seems like a bit of overkill for nagios messaging. (jabberd2
> supports Berkley and SQLite, which strikes me as lighterweight, but
> perhaps it really doesn't matter).
> 
> Oddly enough I find myself leaning towards ejabberd, simply because it
> appears to be more robustly maintained. I have, in the past, used the
> 1.x version of jabberd (which is completely different) and ejabberd,
> as well as some others that aren't in Fedora atm.
> 
> Perhaps we can get this setup rapidly on a testing instance once we
> make a server choice.

I thought there was a jabberd implemention in lua call prosody.im ?

-sv


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