How do you wake up an iPhone user???

[Bram Gillemon]

I use prowl for this, it's free, fast, and you can set the most things you like on the iphone app.

Prowl uses the iphone's push notifications, so you have to have this enabled.

The only problem you have with prowl is that the user can turn of his notifications and as far as i know there is no way to detect this.

http://prowl.weks.net/

Kr,
Bram Gillemon

On 10 Sep 2010, at 10:04, Furnish, Trever G wrote:

> Thought I would poll the list on this one to see what everyone else is
> doing.
> 
> The iphone won't let a user specify a custom sound for a text message
> alert (unless it's jailbroken).  It won't repeat the notification sound
> frequently (once every three seconds, for example).  The existing
> notification sounds aren't loud enough or long enough to wake up most
> people.  Most of the folks I serve have started to complain that Nagios
> can't wake them up -- it's really an iphone problem though.
> 
> Has anyone else come up with a good solution and actually put it into
> use?  I am considering several options:
> 
> 1. Write my own iphone app to make the thing go nuts when a text message
> is ignored for more than a few minutes.
> 
> 2. Write my own  system to cause a simple v.Everything modem to call
> someone and read them an alert using speex or set up an asterix gateway
> to allow such a call to be placed.
> 
> 3. Use an outside service such as pagerduty or alarmtilt.
> 
> I don't quite have the skill for #1, and I don't want to deal with
> detecting answering machines for #2, so I'm surprised to find myself
> leaning towards #3.
> 
> But what has everyone else done?  Is no one else having to deal with
> this?
> 
> --
> Trever Furnish, tgfurnish at herffjones.com
> Herff Jones, Inc. Solutions Architect
> Phone: 317.612.3519
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