monitoring a script via irc

morgon has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have some stuff running on a little openwrt device that will be moving between networks and I cannot always connect to it.

But nevertheless I would like to monitor it, and so I came up with the idea of using irc for that, ie. my script would simply send every 30 mins or so a status-message to a private channel.

I've just tried it out and technically it would be extremely simple (which is important as I don't have access to the whole of CPAN on Openwrt but I have IO::Socket and IO::Select and that's enough for irc) but as I never really used irc a lot I wonder if maybe there are issues I don't see at the moment (like server-operators maybe identifying and banning such bots).

So my question is: Would this be a good idea and if so what server would be best (I am currently using foonetic)?

Comment on monitoring a script via irc

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Re: monitoring a script via irc by huck (Prior) on Feb 03, 2017 at 00:13 UTC
I would think the problems with reliably logging onto a server and getting your message sent might be high. Can it connect to you? Just create a port listener on your machine.	[reply]
Re^2: monitoring a script via irc by morgon (Priest) on Feb 03, 2017 at 01:40 UTC
No, it cannot connect to me either. And I would like to monitor it when on the move on my phone. I don't need reliable logging, I just want to be able to see that it's still alive.	[reply]