Re: xmpp based nagios notifications

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On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:38 PM, David Nalley <david@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> ejabberd is written in erlang, and appears to be one of the better
>> supported xmpp server implementations. Aside from being written in
>> erlang,
>
> Erlang is actually a pretty interesting language, especially for
> writing network servers.  However there is the downside that I doubt
> many people on the Infrastructure team are familiar with Erlang and
> having some familiarity definitely helps out when configuring or
> troubleshooting Ejabberd.

Yeah, that's my concern

>
>> another downside is that it requires either postgres or mysql,
>
> Where do you see this requirement?  I'm not a ejabberd guru but as far
> as I know ejabberd does not require postgresql or mysql, it will use
> Erlang's built in database (MNESIA).  The servers that I run at
> $DAYJOB use LDAP as the user store and never touch a postgresql or
> mysql server.

hmmm perhaps I read docs wrong then.

>
>> 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.
>
> Ejabberd is my preference too, but since I doubt I'll be able to do a
> whole lot to help out don't let my opinion get in the way.
>
> One other testimonial is that Facebook uses Ejabbed behind the scenes
> to handle their chat service...

Yeah, I understand jabber.org uses it as well now.

>
>> Perhaps we can get this setup rapidly on a testing instance once we
>> make a server choice.
>
> Either Ejabberd or Jabberd2 are pretty easy to set up, at least in a
> standalone single-node mode.
>
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