Nagios Making Phone Calls - How ?

[Networks]

This just seems overkill to me, and entire PBX software running just to
make an outgoing call. 


On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 11:07, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> I haven't implemented it yet, but I've thought of doing it, integrating the 
> asterisk pbx (asterisk.org) with nagios so to make asterisk call some 
> sysadmin or developer to yell at them whenever something goes wrong :)
> 
> it's really no problem with asterisk. drop a something.call file in the 
> /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing dir, and asterisk will call whatever number and 
> do whatever you've specified in the .call file (say - play this or that .mp3 
> file, transfer to your girlfriend, record everything and forward it to the 
> guy's boss by mail as a .wav attachment etc). The possibilities are 
> innumberable :D
> 
> (ps. I've tried some of these possibilities ... I set up an extension, and 
> when in, dialed a number to call that person and set off playback of some 
> very very noisy contemporary music)
> 
> roy
> 
> On Thursday 07 August 2003 16:30, Joshua R. wrote:
> > I got pretty far with this yesterday, but had problems getting vgetty
> > (mgetty+voice) to work with the external US Robotics Sportster Modem. I
> > will be picking up a voice modem to play with, and I will see if that
> > works. My idea was to use the notification escalations to determine when
> > to make phone calls, since I do not waiting it calling everyone
> > immediately. My next best guess was defining a new command to be used
> > for the contacts config file. and define a new contact/group for phone
> > calls.
> >
> > Not sure how everyone else in-visioned this. I will let you know once I
> > have made some more progress. Yann, can you post the scripts you used
> > and the configs you made for nagios?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Josh
> >
> > On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 02:58, Yann Lollivier wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am in the process of doing this. I am using a phone card to perform the
> > > calls, but this should work with a voice modem. Here is my prcess :
> > > -Nagios sends a mail with the contact's phone number as the subject to a
> > > specific user -Procmail is configured for this user, so it that it
> > > catches the mail and send it to a perl script for parsing -The perl
> > > script first generate  a .wav file, calling the festival_client command
> > > with the message body as input -The phone number in the mail subject is
> > > then called, and the .wav gets play.
> > >
> > > If anyone has a better (cleaner ?) solution than using procmail, I'd be
> > > happy to hear about it !
> > >
> > > Yann
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Networks [mailto:networks at wi.rr.com]
> > > > Sent: mercredi 6 août 2003 16:31
> > > > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Making Phone Calls - How ?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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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