NAME

       nagircbot - announce Nagios status to an IRC channel

SYNOPSIS

       nagircbot [-CdeHmRStxX] [-A REGEX] [-c CHANNEL] [-f FILE] [-F HOST[:PORT]] [-i INTERVAL]
                 [-I INTERVAL] [-k KEYWORD] [-n NICK] [-N PREFIX] [-p PASSWORD] [-P FILE]
                 [-s HOST[:PORT]] [-T LIST] [-u USERNAME] [-U NAME] [-z USER]

DESCRIPTION

       nagircbot is an IRC bot that reads Nagios' status information and emits alerts to an IRC
       channel. It can filter alerts based on severity (CRITICAL, HARD, SOFT, and/or UNKNOWN) or
       by regular expression. It can connect to IRC servers protected by password or SSL, and can
       optionally set the topic to the current Nagios status.

OPTIONS

       -A REGEX
              Filter (omit) lines that match a basic regular expression.

       -c CHANNEL
              Channel to connect to, including the leading "#" (default: "#nagircbot").

       -C     Use colors in IRC messages.

       -d     Do not fork into the background.

       -e     Use encryption (SSL) when connecting to the IRC server.

       -f FILE
              Path to Nagios' status.log, indicated by the 'status_file' parameter in nagios.cfg
              (default: "/usr/local/nagios/var/status.log").

       -F HOST[:PORT]
              Retrieve status.log over the network. If no port is specified, the default is
              33333.

       -H     Only announce alerts in 'HARD' state. This is the default.

       -i INTERVAL
              Nagios alert check interval, in seconds (default: 60).

       -I INTERVAL
              How often to announce Nagios global status in the channel, in seconds.  Specify an
              interval of 0 (the default) to disable. Do not specify an interval smaller than the
              alert check (-i) interval.

       -k KEYWORD
              Keyword for the channel (default: no keyword).

       -m     Display status information for an alert in separate IRC messages instead of
              combining on a single message.

       -n NICK
              IRC nick to use (default: "nagircbot").

       -N PREFIX
              Prefix for all in-channel IRC messages.

       -p PASSWORD
              IRC server password.

       -P FILE
              Write PID file.

       -R     Only announce CRITICAL/UNKNOWN alerts.

       -s HOST[:PORT]
              IRC server to connect to. If not specified, the default is "localhost:6667".  If no
              port is specified, the default is 33333.

       -S     Also announce alerts in 'SOFT' state.

       -t     Set the channel topic to an alert summary.

       -T LIST
              Enable checks to see if Nagios is still running. Send 'check' in a private message
              to invoke the check. Accepts a comma-seperated list (without spaces) with the
              following elements: max_time_last_host_update, max_time_oldest_host_update,
              max_time_last_host_check, max_time_oldest_host_check, max_time_last_service_check,
              max_time_oldest_service_check, and max_time_oldest_next_service_check.

       -u USERNAME
              Username to log into the IRC server as.

       -U NAME
              IRC "real" or full name (default: "nagircbot").

       -x     status.log is in Nagios 1.0 format.

       -X     status.log is in Nagios 2.0/3.0 format. This is the default.

       -z USER
              User to run as.

AUTHOR

       nagircbot was written by Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>.

       This manual page was written by John Morrissey <jwm@horde.net>, for the Debian project
       (and may be used by others).

                                        December 13, 2010                            NAGIRCBOT(1)