Thought for an alert
Jeremy Russell
Jeremy.Russell at chickasaw.net
Mon Jun 21 22:37:20 CEST 2004
Ok, This you must share!!!
Any helpful hints?
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From: Mark Musone [mailto:mmusone at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 1:43 PM
To: Jason Branscum
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Thought for an alert
We currently do this using Asterisk. which, as an added bonus
can use
a pot line or VOIP.
Mixing it with festival provised text to speech.
An added bonus is the ability to dial-in to the system, and
"press 1
for current alerts, press 2 to restart apache...etc.."
-Mark
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:57:37 -0500 (CDT), Jason Branscum
<jasonb at teletouch.net> wrote:
>
>
> Hey Guys (in a non-gender sort of way, of course)
>
> I had an interesting thought this morning but have been quite
unsuccessful
> in finding ways to go about this.
>
> The scenario:
>
> You are a small business hosting a website customers connect
to, one
> internet connection to a local uplink provider, one router
handling all
> this traffic. This is a pretty common scenario; Most small
business don't
> use BGP or failover connectivity.. heck, some of my customer
use DSL to do
> major hosting. Your nagios server is located on-site and is
set to send
> SMS messages when a host goes down.
>
> The disaster:
>
> The above scenario has two points of failure (PoF), the
Internet router
> and the Internet link itself (a T1 in this case). One night,
tragicly,
> your T1 line goes down as someone installs a new fence in
their backyard
> and cuts right through a cable mistaken for a tree root with
their rented
> backhoe (sound famiallier anyone). Your nagios server tries
to alert you
> but is unable to because of the link being down. Customers
are furious
> and you're sound asleep dreaming about profits.
>
> The fix:
>
> I'd like to investigate using a unix machine (or Win32 if I
_had_ to) that
> I can order to Dial a cell phone, Speak a message "Link to
SOMEISP down,
> help!" or even the standard nagios host-notify out of
misccommands.cfg and
> then hang-up. Wouldn't that be neat? Right now, I have
Zetron's that can
> do this, they'll wake me up in the middle of the night to tell
me the
> power is out a a tower site but have no computer interface.
>
> Usually googling will come up with answers on any subject but
frankly I am
> stumped and cannot find any help for this over the internet.
Something
> tells me I have a long road ahead of me but my perl skills are
up and
> prepared to code anything I need. What I'd like from ya'll is
any kind of
> programs you know (unix preferably) that will use SAPI (text
to speech)
> and/or dial-out scripts that will allow audio input. If
nothing else, I
> can record the .WAV files myself (although it would be messy)
and have
> said dialer call a cell phone and play pre-recorded messages..
which is
> why SAPI or the like is preferable.. you give SAPI some text
and it says
> it (in a robotish voice) rather than having 100 megs of WAV
files sitting
> dormant.
>
> Any help would rock the casbah! If I actually come up with
anything wprth
> using, I'll be happy to share.
>
> Jason
>
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