Yes, you can use Twitter for monitoring your server. I won't say that it is a complete monitoring solution nor I will ask you to throw away your existing monitoring mechanisms. In fact the script I am talking about, MYST (AGPLv3), was not created for this purpose. It was created so that I could tweet without using browser with inspiration from Hiemanshu, a Fedora contributor, using python-twitter api.
It is just a fun script which you can use to tweet the health of your server periodically to a private account which only a moderated set of people can follow. So here is how you do it:
It is just a fun script which you can use to tweet the health of your server periodically to a private account which only a moderated set of people can follow. So here is how you do it:
Step 1: Create a Twitter account. From settings page, mark it private.
Step 2: Open Twitter's new application page and fill the form. Put the name as 'MYST' and website as 'http://myst.adityapatawari.com'.
Step 3: Download 'MYST: Twitter for Shell' and extract it.
Step 4: Open your application 'MYST' listed at Twitter's apps page and fill .myst.conf with the relevant details.
Copy it to your home directory.
Step 5: Install python-twitter (version 0.82) on your server along with dependencies.
Step 6: Put a cron with appropriate time (and path to scripts) to execute the following periodically:
This is a cool method to check out the system health and you can modify monitor.sh to add more parameters to monitor.
Step 2: Open Twitter's new application page and fill the form. Put the name as 'MYST' and website as 'http://myst.adityapatawari.com'.
Step 3: Download 'MYST: Twitter for Shell' and extract it.
Step 4: Open your application 'MYST' listed at Twitter's apps page and fill .myst.conf with the relevant details.
Copy it to your home directory.
Step 5: Install python-twitter (version 0.82) on your server along with dependencies.
Step 6: Put a cron with appropriate time (and path to scripts) to execute the following periodically:
./myst.py update `./monitor.sh`
This is a cool method to check out the system health and you can modify monitor.sh to add more parameters to monitor.
Please contribute to the MYST project on Gitorious.org
Hi, I have tried your application. But it show error.
ReplyDelete./myst.py update `./monitor.sh`
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./myst.py", line 50, in ?
user=twitter.Api(consumer_key=conskey, consumer_secret=conssec, access_token_key=accstkn, access_token_secret=accssec)
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'access_token_key'
I have completed all step like your guide. Please correct me
Hi Ngapak-ers,
ReplyDeleteYou are getting this error because you are using older version of python-twitter. You need to install the latest version. Download it from [1] and follow the instruction given on their home page at [2]. Make sure that you have all the required dependencies.
[1]: http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/downloads/detail?name=python-twitter-0.8.2.tar.gz
[2]: http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/
How about this error?
ReplyDeleteTraceback (most recent call last):
File "./myst.py", line 64, in ?
user.PostUpdates(status)
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/twitter.py", line 2799, in PostUpdates
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/twitter.py", line 2765, in PostUpdate
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/twitter.py", line 3763, in _FetchUrl
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/oauth2/__init__.py", line 493, in sign_request
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable
Found a similar bug in tweepy at [1]. Looks like this is because of locale. Maybe you are using a locale which is not supported by python-twitter. I'll try to dig more and get it fixed.
ReplyDelete[1]: https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy/issues/13
What is locale?
ReplyDeletei will wait your next information
Locale defines things which are local to your computer like language, fonts etc. Read more about it on wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locale
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