Nagios Making Phone Calls - How ?

[Ethan Galstad]

If you'd be willing to post the scripts, I'd love to post the details 
on how you did this in a FAQ.  I'm sure a few people would be 
interested in doing the same thing.


On 6 Aug 2003 at 21:02, Joseph McQueen wrote:

> 
> I actually just completed setting this up. It™s pretty easy if you 
> read the Docs on each piece and write some perl scripts (It was one 
> of the first perl scripts I ever wrote).
> 
> I used a notification (miscommands.cfg) to generate a text œmessage 
> and a œqueue entry. I check the queue using a perl script every 
> couple of minutes. When I see something in the queue file, I use the 
> text I generated from the notification and convert it to a WAV file 
> using Festival™s TEXT2WAVE utility. This is then ran through some 
> conversions (wavtopvf, pvfspeed, and pvftormd) to make it specific 
> for the voice modem I™m using. Once I have the RMD file, I call the 
> person listed in the queue and let them know they have an important 
> message. If they press one, I play the message generated and remove 
> them from the queue.
> 
> All of the call scripting is in Perl (with some œsystem functions) 
> using the Modem::Vgetty module.
> 
> To Summarize, you™ll need...
> Festival (maybe with Festvox for some voices)
> Vgetty configured (Comes with pvftormd, pvfspeed, and wavtopvf as 
> well as VM)
> Nagios (Obviously)
> Some customized perl scripting and an Idea of what you want the 
> finalized process to be
> 
> The best reference I found to do the perl scripting was the œMother 
> of Perl website which had a great example of calling someone. The 
> rest was basically bits and pieces I pulled together through some 
> research.
> 
> If there is enough interest, I might post some of the scripting 
> (although it is fairly rudimentary since I™m new to perl). I™m sure 
> someone could better optimize how it works and I™d love the input to 
> make it a viable solution for anyone. We actually are using it to 
> replace our NOC monitoring service (which was horrid anyhow) and to 
> replace What™s Up Gold (which hung the modem and prevented messages 
> from being sent out).
> 
> 
> From: Networks <networks at wi...>.rr.com> 
> Re: Nagios Making Phone Calls - How ?  
> 2003-08-06 07:33 
> 
> I have heard of people using festival and other programs to so this. 
> If no one knows, I'll try to figure it out on my own, and let you 
> guys
> know what I find. I'm sure others might be interested in doing this.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Josh
> 
> On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 16:39, Networks wrote:
> > I was wondering if anyone has configured Nagios to send alerts with
> > phone calls through a modem? Any Help/Experience would be greatly
> > appreciated. 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Josh
> > 
> > 
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