How do you wake up an iPhone user???

[Mike Chesnut]

This app solves the problem for me on Android: 
http://software.roadkill.com/CustomSMS/

I never did get around this issue when I had an iPhone, though.  Setting 
your Nagios alerts to repeat at an interval that's a multiple of the 
iPhone's alert-repeat was about the best I could do.

Mike

On 09/10/2010 07:56 AM, Greg Pangrazio wrote:
> The only drawback to the android version is that your nagios server
> has to be publically accessable.  Mine is not and so those do not
> work.  I did set up a test server and was pretty happy with the
> results.
>
> I have not used the iPhone version.
>
> Greg Pangrazio
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Dorfman, Justin<justin at mahalo.com>  wrote:
>> 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
>> 818.485.1458
>> @jdorfman | @MahaloSysops | Blog: http://bit.ly/aNiWSk
>>
>>
>> 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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