How do you wake up an iPhone user???

[Dorfman, Justin]

Have you checked out: iNag?
http://idevelop.fullnet.com/iapps/modules/apps/inag.php

For Android peeps:

I have Nagroid for my Droid (
http://frugalinfotech.com/woot/4-free-must-have-android-apps-for-sysadmins/)
Regards,

Justin Dorfman
Mahalo.com Inc. > Jr. Systems Engineer
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On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Furnish, Trever G <TGFurnish at herffjones.com
> 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
> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Unix.
>
>
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