Nagios Making Phone Calls - How ?

[solo molo]

I have successfully done this with a Hayes Acura V.92 Model 15328.  Getting 
vgetty to work properly was an absolute nitemare.  I ended up getting a 
patched version from a webiste for another product called VOCP 
(www.vocpsystem.com).  This patched version allows you to force vgetty to 
detect whichever modem type will work - I had to try every possible setting 
with test.pvf program (this comes with the patched version) before finding 
one that would work.

As far as implementation, I created a callservice and a callclient.  The 
callservice runs as a daemon and waits for phonecall requests.  When nagios 
escalation requires a phone call, nagios executes the call client.  The main 
reason I did this was to throttle the number of phone calls that could be 
placed at any one time.

Anyway I've attached the source for those two components.  I only need to 
call one number, but the code could easily be modified to take arguments for 
different call scripts.  If you have any questions let me know.  It took me 
forever to finally get this all working right, so I'd be happy to share the 
knowledge.


>From: "Joshua R." <jrobinett at wi.rr.com>
>To: Yann Lollivier <yann.lollivier at logicacmg.com>
>CC: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Nagios Making Phone Calls - How ?
>Date: 07 Aug 2003 09:30:27 -0500
>
>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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