Sound notification on nagios server

Eli Stair estair at ilm.com
Wed Dec 14 20:58:39 CET 2005


I've had success with 'echo -en "\007"' (aka: beep).  Have an 
eventhandler run that whenever you want to get annoyed.

It's fun to use with a remote ssh type handler when you're watching 
interns try to find a node in a cluster and you're watching on Netbotz ;)

/eli

Marcio Merlone wrote:
> On Qua, 2005-12-14 at 15:40 +0000, Deborah Martin wrote:
> 
>>probably a dumb question - but why have the sound on your server and not
>>through a client front-end ? 
>>Surely a nagios server would be hosted in a computer room somewhere and the
>>clients would be those monitoring
>>from their desktops ? Or why not have a web browser open on the server then
>>? 
> 
> 
> 
> A question is never dumb ;)
> 
> The room where my nagios server is hosted is right beside me, at the
> reach of my ears. But I don't want to keep my workstation always on,
> and, as a matter of fact, I don't have the required plugins on my
> browser to play sound - and don't really care for those, don't want
> them.
> 
> Since the server will be always on, it seems a good idea (for me) to
> have the sound notification on it. My support team is indeed very small,
> just me and another guy, to deal with 4 linux servers and 2 internet
> connections.
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> 



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