Puh, I though it’s time for a new purpose of my Nabaztag-Bunnies. So I’ve solved this problem with the following steps. You can see the result at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyhCD34xJNo

First and the most important part: Winamp. Furthermore I need something to easily access the controls of it. So I’ve found a very cool plugin called Winamp Web Interface (v.7.5.10).

This minimalistic web interface is also cool on the Mobile. Tested it with HTC HD Mini and HTC Touch Diamond (Win Mobile 6.5 and Win Mobile 6.1) J

But it isn’t useable for Nabaztag L

So first I started to write a small PHP Script which parses the output of the ‘original’ Web Interface and provide me a smaller and easier view. OK, I have not the full functionality, but because I can control it with GET-Requests it’s easier to handle with Nabaztag.

So, I have included also a small logic which queries the current status and if the playback is stopped it will be started and vice versa. So it’s possible to use the same URL for Nabaztag, because there I can use configure a simple URL where it will execute a GET on it.

So basically when a Nano:ztag (the little Bunnies) come in the near of the real Nabaztag’s it’s sending a GET-Request to the above URL with a parameter. If this parameter is specified I send a GET from PHP to the Winamp-Webserver, parse the Output and so I’ll find out which is the current state. And whatever state it is, I make a new GET to the Winamp-Webserver with the opposite task

So all in all quite simple J

I’ll attach the PHP-Script later on. But I think I should rewrite it. Currently it’s not a nice coding style

So let the force be with you J

_Hans

Based on my other script notify-by-nabaztag.php (see this post)  i’ve wrote another little PHP-Script which gets the Nagios/Icinga Status from the nagiostats/icingastats utility and use my notify-by-nabaztag.php to send out a status message. Here it is: status2nabaztag.php

There are just a few steps to get up and running:

1. Grap my notify-by-nabaztag.php and the status2nabaztag.php scripts

wget http://www.sperrgebiet.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/notify-by-nabaztag.txt -O /usr/local/icinga/libexec/notify-by-nabaztag.php

wget http://www.sperrgebiet.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/status2nabaztag.txt -O /usr/local/icinga/bin/status2nabaztag.php

2. Change, if required, paths to the binaries. Specially $stats & $php

3. Test it

php /usr/local/icinga/bin/status2nabaztag.php

4. Assuming everything worked as expected you can add an entry to your crontab to regulary executes the script. I know, it would be a nicer to use the Nagios/Icinga timeperiod-definitions, but the crontab-entry is easier

vim /etc/crontab

0 6-23 * * * root /usr/bin/php /usr/local/icinga/bin/status2nabaztag.php

This cron entry will executes the script every day between 6am and 11pm.

It’s just a short post, but i think the script should be self explaining too. Furthermore it’s quite late/early, so i’ll try to get some sleep because i have to get up in 3hours

Hope this script is useful too. Please let me know if you have any troubles to get it running.

Remember: In god we trust, the rest we monitor

So I’ve wrote my own notification script in PHP. You can download it here: notify-by-nabaztag.php

You can watch a video demonstrating it in action here in the following embedded Windows Media Player or at YouTube

The script is quite simple. It’s need two arguments. The first one is the message for the TTL (text-to-speech) and the second one is the “notification type”. The notification type is either the service or host state (OK, WARNING, CRITICAL, UNKNOWN, UP, DOWN, UNREACHABLE).

Depending on the notification type the bunny is flashing in a different color and moves it’s ears to another position:

You can configure the voice which should be used inside the script. I propose to use a US/UK one because the states are in English too. I think the script should be self-explaining. If not, just leave an comment.

When you already have Nagios/Icinga up and running you should also know how to add an new notification command. Otherwise here are the basic steps (assuming you are running Icinga within /usr/local/icinga):

1. We need php-cli installed so we can run the script on the CLI. Depending on your distro run on of the following commands

 aptitude install php-cli
or
yum install php-cli

2. Download the script to your libexec-Directory:

wget http://www.sperrgebiet.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/notify-by-nabaztag.txt -O /usr/local/icinga/libexec/notify-by-nabaztag.php

3. Add a host and service notification command. If you want a more detailed output just add it to the right position. You’ll find all available Macros at http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/macrolist.html

vim /usr/local/icinga/etc/objects/commands.cfg

# ‘notify-service-by-nabaztag’ command
define command{
command_name notify-service-by-nabaztag
command_line /usr/bin/php $USER1$/notify-by-nabaztag.php “Monitoring Notification: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ on $HOSTNAME$ (Hostalias is $HOSTALIAS$) with Service: $SERVICEDESC$. Current servicestate is $SERVICESTATE$” $SERVICESTATE$
}

# ‘notify-host-by-nabaztag’ command
define command{
command_name notify-host-by-nabaztag
command_line /usr/bin/php $USER1$/notify-by-nabaztag.php “Monitoring Notification: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ on $HOSTNAME$ (Hostalias is $HOSTALIAS$). Hoststate is $HOSTSTATE$” $HOSTSTATE$
}

4. I’ve created a new time period, because I don’t want that my bunny is talking to me during the night

vim /usr/local/icinga/etc/objects/timeperiods.cfg

# ‘nabazhours’

define timeperiod{
timeperiod_name nabazhours
alias Where my nabaztag is active
monday 06:00-23:00
tuesday 06:00-23:00
wednesday 06:00-23:00
thursday 06:00-23:00
friday 06:00-23:00
saturday 08:00-23:00
sunday 08:00-23:00
}

5. After that a new contact is created which use the above added notification commands and the right time period

vim /usr/local/icinga/etc/objects/contacts.cfg

define contact{
contact_name nabaztag
use generic-contact
alias My Bunny
service_notification_commands notify-service-by-nabaztag
host_notification_commands notify-host-by-nabaztag
service_notification_period nabazhours
host_notification_period nabazhours
}

6. We should have enough time to run a config-check

/usr/local/icinga/bin/icinga -v /usr/local/icinga/etc/icinga.cfg

7. When no errors or warnings appear reload Nagios/Icinga and wait till problem occur

/etc/init.d/icinga reload

Hope everything works as expected and you’ll find this script useful. Have fun with Nagios/Icinga and your Bunny. J