Thought for an alert

[Mark Grafing]

I may not be getting this correctly, are you planning on putting the
*nix server to call you in the same location, or, an alternate location?
If it is an alternate location, why not setup a Distributive Monitoring
System and incorporate SMS notifications. And lastly, if it is the same
location and the DSL line is cut...so is your phone lines so how would
either machine reach you. Just curious and I am not tryoing to be the
wise ass on the newsgroup.
Thanks,
~MARK~

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jason
Branscum
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 11:58 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Thought for an alert



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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