xmpp based nagios notifications

[David Nalley]

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:00 PM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 21:38 -0500, David Nalley wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:42 PM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> 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 at fedoraproject.org> 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

There is - I don't see it in either EPEL or Fedora's repos though,
which was one of my search constraints.