Thought for an alert

[Networks]

Jason,

I tried setting that up once, had problems getting the right type of
voice modem to do the job. Basically it involves using a check for
internet connectivity, festival, and notification escalations.

I know your not the only one to want to do this, and it HAS been done
before.

Anyhow, I'll see what documentation I still have around on it and
forward it on. Let me know how your progress goes.

Josh



On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 11:57, Jason Branscum wrote:
> Hey Guys (in a non-gender sort of way, of course)
> 
> I had an interesting thought this morning but have been quite unsuccessful
> in finding ways to go about this.
> 
> The scenario:
> 
> You are a small business hosting a website customers connect to, one
> internet connection to a local uplink provider, one router handling all
> this traffic.  This is a pretty common scenario; Most small business don't
> use BGP or failover connectivity.. heck, some of my customer use DSL to do
> major hosting.  Your nagios server is located on-site and is set to send
> SMS messages when a host goes down.
> 
> The disaster:
> 
> The above scenario has two points of failure (PoF), the Internet router
> and the Internet link itself (a T1 in this case).  One night, tragicly,
> your T1 line goes down as someone installs a new fence in their backyard
> and cuts right through a cable mistaken for a tree root with their rented
> backhoe (sound famiallier anyone).  Your nagios server tries to alert you
> but is unable to because of the link being down.  Customers are furious
> and you're sound asleep dreaming about profits.
> 
> The fix:
> 
> I'd like to investigate using a unix machine (or Win32 if I _had_ to) that
> I can order to Dial a cell phone, Speak a message "Link to SOMEISP down,
> help!" or even the standard nagios host-notify out of misccommands.cfg and
> then hang-up.  Wouldn't that be neat?  Right now, I have Zetron's that can
> do this, they'll wake me up in the middle of the night to tell me the
> power is out a a tower site but have no computer interface.
> 
> Usually googling will come up with answers on any subject but frankly I am
> stumped and cannot find any help for this over the internet.  Something
> tells me I have a long road ahead of me but my perl skills are up and
> prepared to code anything I need.  What I'd like from ya'll is any kind of
> programs you know (unix preferably) that will use SAPI (text to speech)
> and/or dial-out scripts that will allow audio input.  If nothing else, I
> can record the .WAV files myself (although it would be messy) and have
> said dialer call a cell phone and play pre-recorded messages.. which is
> why SAPI or the like is preferable.. you give SAPI some text and it says
> it (in a robotish voice) rather than having 100 megs of WAV files sitting
> dormant.
> 
> Any help would rock the casbah!  If I actually come up with anything wprth
> using, I'll be happy to share.
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
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