Nagios Making Phone Calls - How ?

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

I haven't implemented it yet, but I've thought of doing it, integrating the 
asterisk pbx (asterisk.org) with nagios so to make asterisk call some 
sysadmin or developer to yell at them whenever something goes wrong :)

it's really no problem with asterisk. drop a something.call file in the 
/var/spool/asterisk/outgoing dir, and asterisk will call whatever number and 
do whatever you've specified in the .call file (say - play this or that .mp3 
file, transfer to your girlfriend, record everything and forward it to the 
guy's boss by mail as a .wav attachment etc). The possibilities are 
innumberable :D

(ps. I've tried some of these possibilities ... I set up an extension, and 
when in, dialed a number to call that person and set off playback of some 
very very noisy contemporary music)

roy

On Thursday 07 August 2003 16:30, Joshua R. wrote:
> I got pretty far with this yesterday, but had problems getting vgetty
> (mgetty+voice) to work with the external US Robotics Sportster Modem. I
> will be picking up a voice modem to play with, and I will see if that
> works. My idea was to use the notification escalations to determine when
> to make phone calls, since I do not waiting it calling everyone
> immediately. My next best guess was defining a new command to be used
> for the contacts config file. and define a new contact/group for phone
> calls.
>
> Not sure how everyone else in-visioned this. I will let you know once I
> have made some more progress. Yann, can you post the scripts you used
> and the configs you made for nagios?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
>
> On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 02:58, Yann Lollivier wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am in the process of doing this. I am using a phone card to perform the
> > calls, but this should work with a voice modem. Here is my prcess :
> > -Nagios sends a mail with the contact's phone number as the subject to a
> > specific user -Procmail is configured for this user, so it that it
> > catches the mail and send it to a perl script for parsing -The perl
> > script first generate  a .wav file, calling the festival_client command
> > with the message body as input -The phone number in the mail subject is
> > then called, and the .wav gets play.
> >
> > If anyone has a better (cleaner ?) solution than using procmail, I'd be
> > happy to hear about it !
> >
> > Yann
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Networks [mailto:networks at wi.rr.com]
> > > Sent: mercredi 6 août 2003 16:31
> > > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Making Phone Calls - How ?
> > >
> > >
> > > I have heard of people using festival and other programs to so this.
> > > If no one knows, I'll try to figure it out on my own, and let you guys
> > > know what I find. I'm sure others might be interested in doing this.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Josh
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 16:39, Networks wrote:
> > > > I was wondering if anyone has configured Nagios to send alerts with
> > > > phone calls through a modem? Any Help/Experience would be greatly
> > > > appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Josh
> > > >
> > > >
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