Google Chat Notification

[cgerman]

We use Google Suites and I was wondering how would I set up CheckMK to alert using Google Chat/Spaces. I see there is a GitHub for Nagios 2 Google Chat but I’m at a loss on how to set this up on CheckMK.

Any guidance would be appreciated, thank you!

[elias.voelker (EliasV)]

Hi @cgerman
and welcome to the forum.
The bad news is, Checkmk does not have an out-of-the-box integration with Google CHat. But you already knew that.
The good news is, there Google Chat has an API, and webhooks work as well, so it shouldn’t be too hard to build something custom.
Take a look here to get started (linked to the right section): Notifications - via Email, SMS, Ticketsystems and more

[kdeutsch (Karl Deutsch)]

Hi,
you can try these steps:

1. Download the file gchat_notify.sh
2. Store the file inside of your Checkmk installation in the directory local/share/check_mk/notifications
3. Add as second line in the script # Google Chat
4. Modify the lines for url and id to your needs
5. Set the execution flag: chmod +x gchat_notifiy.sh

After that you should get the new notification method for your notification rules:

Karl

[r.sander (Robert Sander)]

@kdeutsch

you can try these steps:

Will not work as the script chat_notify.sh does not use environment variables but command line arguments to get the info about the alarm. It needs to be rewritten. That should be easy as it is a simple API call.