Notifications via modem

[Russell Adams]

I'd recommend Sendpage (sendpage.org) over Qpage. I've run both and
highly prefer Sendpage, especially for multiple outbound modems.

Russell

On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 04:54:36PM -0500, Demetri Mouratis wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Jonathan Billey wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am trying to investigate a way to send Nagios notifications to a cell
> > phone/pager using a modem in case the Internet connection goes down.
> >
> > Right now during normal office hours I have notifications sent to a
> > central e-mail queue that the IT department monitors. During off hours
> > notifications are sent to a cell phone using the service & host
> > "e-pager" command.
> >
> > If it was the case that the Internet connection went down and Nagios
> > could not send notifications through e-mail or by text messaging I would
> > like to have a backup where it would use a dialup connection to send out
> > the alert.
> >
> > We are running Nagios 1.2 on FreeBSD 4.10
> >
> > Has anyone setup this type of notification method?
> >
> > Any help would be much appreciated.
> >
> > JB
> 
> Check out qpage:
> 
> http://www.qpage.org/
> 
> (forgive the wrapping below)
> # notify-by-qpage command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    notify-by-qpage
>         command_line    /usr/bin/printf "Service: %s\nHost: %s\nAddress:
> %s\nState: %s\nInfo: %s\nDate: %s" '$SERVICEDESC$' '$HOSTNAME$'
> '$HOSTADDRESS$' '$SERVICESTATE$' '$OUTPUT$' '$DATETIME$' |
> /usr/local/bin/qpage -l 0 -p $CONTACTPAGER$
>         }
> 
> # host-notify-by-qpage command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    host-notify-by-qpage
>         command_line    /usr/bin/printf "Host '%s' is %s\nInfo: %s\nTime:
> %s" '$HOSTALIAS$' '$HOSTSTATE$' '$OUTPUT$' '$DATETIME$'b|
> /usr/local/bin/qpage -l 0 -p $CONTACTPAGER$
>         }
> 
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> dmourati at linfactory.com
> 
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