Initial release of Molniya

I am happy to announce the first-ever release of my Nagios IM gateway software, Molniya. First and foremost, it lets you receive Nagios problem notifications as instant messages instead of inbox-clogging floods of email (or worse, SMS messages). Beyond that, you can also ask it for a status report on any problems Nagios currently knows about, force service checks, and acknowledge problems. From the command summary:

Nagios switchboard commands:
status: get a status report
check <host | host/svc>: force a check of the named host or service
You can respond to a notification with its @ number, like so:
@N ack [message]: acknowledge a host or service problem, with optional message
@N check: force a check of the host or service referred to

I've been running this code and its predecessors at work for quite a while now, and it works well. I'm actively adding features; problem acknowledgement just went in this afternoon, for instance.

The code has plenty of room for improvement; expect major revisions to the way commands are handled and messages are formatted, among other things. Patches, feature requests, and especially "it doesn't work on my machine" reports are all welcome.

You can download version 0.1.