How to receive notification alert by sms tomobile phone using Nagios

[Mirza Dedic]

Hi Andrew,

How are you configuring your sanity checks in Nagios?

Thanks.

From: Andrew Davis [mailto:nccomp at gmail.com]
Sent: March/11/2009 9:39 AM
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...




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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
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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


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From: Andrew Davis [mailto:nccomp at gmail.com]
Sent: March 11, 2009 11:35
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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.





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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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