How to receive notification alert by sms tomobile phone using Nagios

[Andrew Davis]

A combination of the "parents", hostgroups, and escalation. I'll post my 
configs later, but once you have confirmed that SMS is setup and working 
(make sure that for every email alert, you also get an SMS alert), then 
you define your network topology and put them into hostgroups. In my 
case, I have a hostgroup of "network-core" which includes my core 
routers, firewalls, Exchange server, Exchange storage, and the switch 
connecting the Exchange system with the firewall. I then have a 
contactgroup of the SMS addresses of three key people (myself included). 
If any of those device fail, Nagios sends notification via SMS. If 
anything else fails, it goes via emails. The kewl thing is I'll often 
sleep through emails, but if I get an SMS, I know something serious 
failed and I force myself to get up...

Additionally, I tend to define a sanity check: a ping to yahoo and http 
to MSN and non-caching dns query of Google. If all sanity checks fail 
and are not resolved within 4 hours, then through escalations, an SMS is 
sent to the manager of the support team at our ISP as we likely have a 
bandwidth down issue. If sanity checks AND a core network device fail, 
my ISP doesn't get notified as we know its us...

  A. Davis
  Email:     nccomp at gmail.com

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Martyn wrote:
> Beat me too it with the same question
>  
> Martyn
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> *From:* Onotsky, Steve x55328 [mailto:Steve.Onotsky at broadridge.com]
> *Sent:* 11 March 2009 15:55
> *To:* nccomp at gmail.com; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] How to receive notification alert by sms 
> tomobile phone using Nagios
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> I've been messing around with this, off and on (as time permits).  How 
> did you set up your config to go to SMS only if email fails?
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> *From:* Andrew Davis [mailto:nccomp at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* March 11, 2009 11:35
> *To:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] How to receive notification alert by sms 
> to mobile phone using Nagios
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> In "Nagios 2nd Edition" from Wolfgang Barth, he covers this in section 
> 12.4.2. He covers "smsclient", "yasp", and "smssend", but he points 
> out what Jim pointed out... most are email to SMS conversion tools so 
> if email is done, you're still not notified. "smsclient" and a modem 
> resolve this. I have it installed and working fine. Our normal 
> notifications go via email, but if a network device or email server is 
> down, then notifications go via SMS.
>
>  
>   A. Davis
>   Email:     nccomp at gmail.com <mailto:nccomp at gmail.com>
>  
>   "There is no limit to what a man can accomplish
>    if he doesn't care who gets the credit." - Ronald Reagan
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> Jim Avery wrote:
>
> 2009/3/11 tsedendorj oyunbat <t_oyunbat at yahoo.com> <mailto:t_oyunbat at yahoo.com>:
>   
>> I'm new one in Nagios system.
>> I work in mobile cellular operator company. And I need to know is there any
>> chance to get notification alert via sms to my mobile phone when BSC or HLR
>> equipments go down or stop working?
>> Is there any configuration on Nagios? And how to connect Nagios server to
>> sms center.
>>     
>  
> Currently I use an external email-sms service similar to
> http://www.intellisms.co.uk so I can send emails from Nagios in the
> usual way and have them converted to SMS.  It's extremely easy to set
> up, but has the disadvantage that if the email system goes down, we
> don't know about it!
>  
> Alternatively, you could connect a mobile 'phone to your Nagios server
> and send SMS using gnokii http://www.gnokii.org/ or similar, or your
> mobile operator might well have an http interface you could use or can
> recommend other options.
>  
> In Nagios, you specify the notification methods in command definitions
> which you can write yourself so it's extremely flexible.  See
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/notifications.html under the
> heading "Notification Methods".
>  
> hth,
>  
> Jim
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