How to receive notification alert by sms tomobile phone using Nagios

[Onotsky, Steve x55328]

Interesting approach, I'll have to keep that in mind.

 

Thanks!

 

 

Steve Onotsky

Server Support Technologist

Broadridge

Investor Communication Solutions, Canada

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Mississauga  ON  L5R 4G5

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From: Andrew Davis [mailto:nccomp at gmail.com] 
Sent: March 11, 2009 12:39
To: Martyn
Cc: Onotsky, Steve x55328; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] How to receive notification alert by sms
tomobile phone using Nagios

 

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
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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

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?

 

Thanks

 

 

Steve Onotsky

Server Support Technologist

Broadridge

Investor Communication Solutions, Canada

5970 Chedworth Way

Mississauga  ON  L5R 4G5

Tel: (905) 507-5328

Fax: (905) 507-5312

Inet: steve.onotsky at broadridge.com <mailto:steve.onotsky at broadridge.com>


 

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- Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347

 

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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

 

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
 
  "There is no limit to what a man can accomplish
   if he doesn't care who gets the credit." - Ronald Reagan



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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