nagios log server alerting notification use slack

[tinklabs]

Dear Sir and Madam,
Is there any way to use slack of nagios log server alerting notification?
thanks

[cdienger]

Nothing developed by us, but there is an 'execute script' alerting options if you'd like to create a customer alert that interfaces with the slack api:

https://api.slack.com/

[nozlaf]

I'd suggest sending alerts from NLS to Nagios XI (or Core) and from there to slack
a central point of administration and monitoring is essential to a healthy system admin

plus alert management in NLS is pretty much non existent (its really good at sending but not so good at handling), using core or XI to handle the alerts gives you the ability to really handle how alerts are managed

but if you want if I was to send alerts straight from NLS

I'd do it this way ....


I'd use the "official" nagios core integration from slack which you enable from here https://my.slack.com/services/new/nagios (follow their directions to get your token)

then script for your NLS server can be grabbed from here https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tinys ... /nagios.pl
i did

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cd /usr/bin  
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tinyspeck/services-examples/master/nagios.pl -O slack.pl
chomd 555 slack.pl

then you will need to edit the script (/usr/bin/slack.pl) to supply your token and domain
find the lines that start like this

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my $opt_domain =
my $opt_token =

fill in your slack domain and your slack token that you would have generated if you followed the directions that the slack integration provided

if you are using the nagios supplied NLS VM you will need to install a couple of perl modules

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yum install perl-libwww-perl perl-LWP-Protocol-https 

and I setup the notification within NLS like this

nls alert definition.png

with the arguments set to

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 -field slack_channel=#NLS -field HOSTALIAS="NLS" -field SERVICEDESC="Apache404" -field SERVICESTATE="%status%" -field SERVICEOUTPUT="%output%"

and I test it
and I get

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NLS/Apache404 is ok:
\'OK: 0 matching entries found \|logs=0\;555\;1000\'

but I'd never do this I'd simply setup a service that received passive checks in Nagios Core and have NLS send the alert using NRDP to that service and have core handle the alerting and acknowledgements of the alerts

[scottwilkerson]

Thanks @nozlaf!