Management from a Cell phone

[Christopher Thuys]

Howdy,
            We use the gnokii software for sending sms alerts via a
serial connected mobile phone. This software also has the ability to
receive sms messages.
We use the receive function to acknowledge host and service alerts. We
do the by replying with the original sms message. a script then looks up
the sending mobile number in the contacts to retrieve the nagios user
and uses that user to acknowledge the alert.
The script is  a bit crude in that it uses wget to post the
acknowledgment through the web interface instead of using the 
external command interface. But then that is only because I have yet to
fond out what the external command is.
I know this is not email but it is very simple for acknowlegments.
 
Chris Thuys.

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From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Chris
Waters
Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 8:02 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Management from a Cell phone



Has anyone been successful in sending commands to Nagios from a cell
phone or similar device via email?  I am thinking of writing some
procmail filters/actions to do some things like parse return emails from
my trouble ticket system and then add the ticket number in a comment.
Along those lines, I was wondering if anyone has developed a method for
acknowledging host down alerts by sending an email back to the nagios
server.  It would seem that processing an external command that is
initiated from procmail would do the trick.  

Has anyone done this or something similar. 


Trying not to re-invent the wheel, 

Chris Waters 

--"The conclusive proof that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the
universe lies in the fact that nobody has bothered to contact
us"--unknown

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