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LICENSE: GPL v2. See LICENSE File

Overview:

Nagzilla was designed to be a Jabber relay "bot" in that it sits quietly in a room until it gets a message to relay to either a chatroom or a person. The early work was based on several simple examples out on the internets but didn't quite meet our needs. Namely they would just keep logging into a room every time they had something to say. That forced us to make it a daemon. This also allows us to now get nagzilla alerts from various systems and event creators. Nagzillac (the client program") accepts any string input and makes into a Jabber message. This should work with Google Talk (as it's Jabber based) but

that's not been tested. The only platform this has been tested on is ejabberd running on Ubuntu. I have no doubts it SHOULD work on other Jabber/Linux/Perl platforms as well.

Nagzilla provides some rudimentary security. You have to have your IP address defined in nagzillad.cfg to send messages but on a local LAN spoofing is trivial. You should still use your firewall wisely in this case and allow access only from those clients who should have it.

Installation:

Nagzilla consists of two components nagzillad (the server) and nagzillac (the client). They do not have to live on the same machine at all but require the

same perl modules be installed.

Required Perl Modules:

IO::Socket IO::Socket::INET Net::Jabber (Ubuntu package: libnet-jabber-perl) Config::Simple (Ubuntu package: libconfig-simple-perl) Data::Dumper (Ubuntu Package: libdata-dumper-simple-perl) Log::LogLite (Ubuntu package: liblog-loglite-perl)

Nagzillad Installation

mkdir /etc/nagzillad/ cp nazillad.cfg and nagzillad-config.pl to /etc/nagzillad cp nagzillad.pl to /usr/local/sbin (or wherever on your system you want it to live) Edit nagzillad.cfg to suit your needs (file should be self-explanatory) start nagzillad.pl with & or add an init script (next version?)

Nagzillac Installation

mkdir /etc/nagzillac cp nagzillac.cfg and nagzillac-config.pl to /etc/nagzillac cp nagzillac.pl to /usr/local/bin (or wherever on your system you want it to live) Edit nagzillac.cfg to suit your needs

Make the magic happen:

nagzillac.pl "TYPE^TO^MESSAGE"

TYPE: This can be either 'room' or 'chat' -- room == a chatroom and chat == an individual TO: What room or person to send to MESSAGE: Your message (which should avoid having ^ in it)

EXAMPLE: nagzillac.pl "room^chatroom^Hi guys a server is down in some far away place"

That's it. Not a bad little hack if you have to monitor stuff and sit in IM all day (or a chat room).