Alerts - Verbal notification - via phone

[Stringham, Steven]

Thanks. I am presently looking into it. I do appreciate that it is being
done.


-----Original Message-----
From: Assaf Flatto [mailto:assaf at m-wise.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 4:20 AM
To: Stringham, Steven
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Alerts - Verbal notification - via phone

Hi

we have set up exactly what you refer to in our Data center , we have
the  nagios send to the asterisk a request for a call with the number to
call  and the asterisk is calling the person's number either cell phone
or land line number ( depends on what is defined in the nagios ) .

True that our "calling" service doesn't tell you what the problem is -
for that we still need to reach a computer , but the main issue is that
we are awake ( or mostly awake) and actually aware that there is a
problem .

in order for this to work you'll have to have asterisk running (Duh) and
able to dial out .
then you need to configure an extension ( * see asterisk documentation )
and allow access to the asterisk form the nagios (in the manager.conf
file *) .

As for the different messages - that is something you can try and play
with - either with festival like other recommended or via sending
parameters to the asterisk .

Assaf

Stringham, Steven wrote:
>
> Has anybody out there configured Nagios to alert via telephone? I
> don't mean like a SMS message or the like. I figure I am more likely
> to answer my home phone ringing at 0 dark hundred than my cell phone's

> little email beeps. Also, that would let me alert others that are not
> actively watching the cellphone, blackberry, etc.
>
> I want the system to call my home phone and tell me:
> "This is your friendly office Nagios system. Host X is down - service
> Y is not running. The time is now 02:43. Get your butt out of bed and
> fix it!"
>
> I am thinking an interface with something like Asterisk might work.
> But, not having set up Asterisk before, I am not quite sure where to
> go. So, I plan on working on getting into it.
>
> I have found one other application that did something like this, and
> when I demod it, the voice quality really stunk, and I could not
> configure what it said, etc. And, I did not like the monitor aspect of

> it as well as I like Nagios.
>
> Just wondering if I am reinventing the wheel, or does someone has a
> spare in the garage?
>
>

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