notify_usbtlight

                                        
Send Icinga notifications to an USB traffic light

                    

        
        

            
            

                

    

    
General


notify_usbtlight.py is a script which controls an USB traffic light.


Icinga notifications will turn the traffic light red if there are critical services,
yellow means only warnings and green tells you that your monitoring is doing well.


Requirements



To run the script, you will also need to have a
classic ui
running. Cron is recommended in order to automate the scripts execution.


Installation


The script does not require any steps more steps to be taken once its
requirements are are met, but in order for the traffic light to be updated the
scripts needs to be called continuously.


Usage


./notify_usbtlight.py --url url > [--user ] [--passwd < passwd >] [--hostgroup < hostgroup >] [--servicegroup < servicegroup >] [--debug]

--url           url to icinga
--user          user for the webinterface
--passwd        password of user
--hostgroup     hostgroup filter
--servicegroup  servicegroup filter
--debug         verbose output for debugging


Run in crontab


One way to do this is in a crontab:
To do this run: crontab -e  (prepend sudo if your clewarecontrol needs it)
And add */1 * * * * /path/to/script.py to your cronfile.
This way the script will be run every minute


License


Copyright (C) 2015 NETWAYS GmbH
This program 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 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.


You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
or see .


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