A simple monitoring tool for jobs that were submitted to CERN's HTCondor infrastructure. It sends status reports to a Telegram bot.

This tool requires the requests library. Install it by running

pip install --user requests

The setup of a Telegram bot requires two steps: getting an API token for your bot from Telegram and registering your bot connection details in Tools/python/telegramUser.py.

Visit telegram.me/botfather and type /newbot. Then, simply follow the instructions of the botfather.

You will receive an API token in this process. Keep it, we will need it in a minute!

Next, start chatting with your newly created bot by clicking the "t.me/[yourNewBot]" link which the botfather has sent in the same message that contained the API token.

As a last step, a user ID has to be retrieved. This ID can be found by visiting https://api.telegram.org/bot[yourAPItoken]/getme, where you have to search for the integer number corresponding to the "id" data entry.

Having obtained API token and user ID for your new Telegram bot, let's proceed to the final setup step.

Copy the file template.telegramUser.py to telegramUser.py, open it and enter your API token and your user ID.

Attention: Never push your telegramUser.py file to GitHub etc. as it contains sensitive information.

If you are a CMS user, you might want to integrate this software into your CMSSW environment. To do this, simply move the entire folder with this software to the src/ folder in your CMSSW release folder and compile with scram b -j 8.

In order to start monitoring your Condor jobs, go to Tools/scripts/ and run ./runCondorReporter.sh (or, if you have complied with scram, simply run runCondorReporter.sh).