Herald is a simple daemon watching the systemd journal and sending selected messages over XMPP. It can be used as a simple server monitoring solution.
- Install the herald package for your distribution (preferred), or install
from source (Go 1.11 or later is required):
make sudo make install
- Edit
/etc/herald/config.toml. You should at least set up your XMPP server and credentials, and the list of recipients. sudo systemctl enable --now herald.service
Herald will look for its configuration file in several locations in the following order:
- The path given as
-config PATHargument in the command line, config.tomlin the current working directory,/etc/herald/config.toml,/etc/herald.toml.
See etc/config.toml for a commented example.
Copyright (C) 2018 Vianney le Clément de Saint-Marcq
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