Ambrosio: a Jabber bot

Ambrosio is a Jabber bot for system administration. You can use it right now, it has at least a usefull feature :)

• It's plugin based, you can write perl modules to add new commands or functionality;
• It's POE based, so you can add other sessions doing other things and report back via Jabber;
• has plugins for most common commands (ifconfig, df, ps, netstat, uptime). It's easy to add others (and it will be easier in future versions...);
• it has a notification plugin: scripts you write, or applications you run, can drop small notification files in a specific directory, and those notifications are sent to the Jabber ID's you specify.

History / What's new

Version 0.4, released 2004/07/27

Notification plugin: scripts or applications can use the local bot to send notifications to Jabber IDs. Read more on how to create notifications;

Improved reply control: a reply packet will be sent if at least one plugin returns RC_OK.

Version 0.3, released 2004/07/23

Presence support: you can subscribe the bot. It's a plugin, so you can disable this

Plugins can catch any packet: presence plugin needed this :)

Version 0.2, released 2004/07/21

Added a local copy of POE::Component::Jabber::Client::Legacy: modifications where made to allow for registration.

Version 0.1, released 2004/07/21

Initial relase: Df, Ps, Uptime and Netstat plugins

Roadmap

• Groupchat (MUC) support: configure the bots to enter one or several rooms, and you can send the same command to all of them;
• Configuration file: add a small configuration file, it's easier than editing bot.pl;
• Rewrite bot_input: don't treat message packets differently - create A::InteractivePlugin and put it all there;
• Re-write the core using Spoon: this will make it easier to install a bot;
• Document and test.

Download

The current version is 0.4, it works. Use 'help' to see what commands are available.

Installation and Configuration