Ultimate Notifier Script
The service Ultimate Notifier allows you to send Push-Notification to your iPhone easily. Based on this, you can write shell scripts that are executed regularly via cron. This could inform you about a changed public IP. To do this, save this script somewhere:
#!/bin/sh ipfile=".currentip" service="ifconfig.me" user="username" pass="password" message="IP:" ip=`curl -s $service` touch $ipfile lastip=`cat $ipfile` if [ "$ip" != "$lastip" ]; then echo "New public IP. Sending notification!" curl -s "https://www.ultimatenotifier.com/items/User/send/${user}/message=${message}%20${ip}/password=${pass}" fi cp /dev/null $ipfile echo $ip > $ipfile
It gets the current public IP via ifconfig.me and compares it to the IP stored in a file named .currentip. If they differ, a Push-Notification will be sent and the new IP stored.
With the command
crontab -e
You can add a cronfile entry. To execute the script every 30 minutes, use this:
*/30 * * * * /Users/anon/bin/ipnotify.sh
You can find the code on GitHub, too!
Of course, you can extend this principle. This script is called every 5 minutes on my server to notify me about eventual problems.
#!/bin/bash # Checks for Health of Server and sends notifications to iPhone in case of error # Checks for: # - HDD Temperature # - HDD Space # - CPU Usage # Sends a notification via UltimateNotifier # Depends on bash, wget, hddtemp, grep, awk, sed, ps, sort and head. # ------------------------------ # ------------------------------ # Your UltimateNotifier Password UNUsername="YourUserName" UNPassword="YourPassWord" # Check for free space hddMountPoint="bay" # greps for this in mounted hdds maxPercentFull=75 # minimum percentage to send notification # Check for CPU Usage of processes maxCpuUsage=750 # Is in tenths of a percent (420 => 42%) # Checks hdd temperature # Depends on hddtemp tool hddDevice="/dev/sda" maxHddTemp=50 # ------------------------------ # ------------------------------ # Set $message to your Message and then call this... function sendNotification { wget "https://www.ultimatenotifier.com/items/User/send/${UNUsername}/message=${message}/password=${UNPassword}" -O /dev/null -q echo "$message" } # ------------------------------ # ------------------------------ # Check for hdd temperature hddTemp=`/usr/sbin/hddtemp ${hddDevice} | awk '{print $4}' | awk -F '°' '{print $1}'` if [ $hddTemp -gt $maxHddTemp ]; then message="Marvin's HDD has reached ${hddTemp}°C!" sendNotification fi # Check for free space on hdd spaceUsed=`df -h | grep ${hddMountPoint} | awk '{print $5}' | sed 's/%//'` if [ $spaceUsed -gt $maxPercentFull ]; then message="Marvin's HDD is ${spaceUsed}% full!" sendNotification fi # Check for most cpu intensive process, report if usage too high processName=`ps -e -o cp,args | sed -e 's/^[ \\t]*//' | awk -F " " '{print $1, $2}' | sed -e '1d' | sort -rn | head -1 | awk '{print $2}'` processUsage=`ps -e -o cp,args | sed -e 's/^[ \\t]*//' | awk -F " " '{print $1, $2}' | sed -e '1d' | sort -rn | head -1 | awk '{print $1}'` if [ $processUsage -gt $maxCpuUsage ]; then processUsage=`echo "${processUsage} / 10.0" | bc -q` message="${processName} needs ${processUsage}% CPU!" sendNotification fiSending Push Notifications to an iPhone from a Bash Script Tweet comments powered by Disqus