Thought for an alert

[Jeremy Russell]

Ok, This you must share!!!
 
Any helpful hints?


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	From: Mark Musone [mailto:mmusone at gmail.com] 
	Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 1:43 PM
	To: Jason Branscum
	Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
	Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Thought for an alert
	
	

	We currently do this using Asterisk. which, as an added bonus
can use 
	a pot line or VOIP. 

	Mixing it with festival provised text to speech. 

	An added bonus is the ability to dial-in to the system, and
"press 1 
	for current alerts, press 2 to restart apache...etc.." 

	-Mark 



	On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:57:37 -0500 (CDT), Jason Branscum 
	<jasonb at teletouch.net> 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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