Comments on: HOWTO monitor your servers via Twitter

By: Michael Vezie

Michael Vezie — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:55:00 +0000

You’re welcome!

By: fak3r

fak3r — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:10:00 +0000

Wow, thanks very much for all the detail, I’m going to try this, I also want to try and tie in monit to it (I’m a big fan of monit btw http://fak3r.com/tag/monit/) so if monit wanted to reach me it could Tweet me as well as the normal email…cool. Look for a follow-up post with docs using OAUTH as you suggested, thanks again!

By: Michael Vezie

Michael Vezie — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:50:00 +0000

I used a python Twitter library, tweepy and wrote my own wrappers for it. I still had to register my own application with Twitter, and connect my accounts, but that’s a one-time task. If you want a simple post script, probably the best place to look is http://jeffmiller.github.com/2010/05/31/twitter-from-the-command-line-in-python-using-oauth

If you prefer perl, then I recommend http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/ You won’t have to register it. Look at twitter.com/big_ben_clock for a client example.

Another thing I did was run it from $reliablehost getting data from $unreliablehost. I then can also tweet if $unreliablehost is down.

By: fak3r

fak3r — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:56:00 +0000

Do you have steps too setup OAUTH? I just haven’t taken the time to really look into it, but I’d like to create a 1, 2, 3 step document to make this work.

That’s a great idea of including your normal Twitter account if something serious is happening, thanks for sharing it!

By: Michael Vezie

Michael Vezie — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:38:00 +0000

For those of us who’ve already taken the plunge with OAUTH and scripts, it’s not a big deal, and this script is still cool.

One thing I changed: if there’s a serious problem, I prepend @myNormalTwitterAcct to it, so I get an alert as a mention.

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By: fak3r

fak3r — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:43:10 +0000

thanks to a tip by @rosy1280, I now have a way to get the % usage of my /root partition: df -h | grep -v "% /[a-z]" | tail -n1 | awk '{print $5}'it also showed me that I should probably be using awk '{print $x}'` instead of my old/hack-y tail | cut | cutThanks, this is helping!

By: fak3r

fak3r — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:43:00 +0000

thanks to a tip by @rosy1280, I now have a way to get the % usage of my /root partition:
df -h | grep -v “% /[a-z]” | tail -n1 | awk ‘{print $5}’

it also showed me that I should probably be using awk ‘{print $x}’` instead of my old/hack-y tail | cut | cut

Thanks, this is helping!