Alerts - Verbal notification - via phone

[Tobias Klausmann]

Hi! 

On Thu, 11 May 2006, Stringham, Steven wrote:
> Has anybody out there configured Nagios to alert via telephone?
> I don't mean like a SMS message or the like. I figure I am more
> likely to answer my home phone ringing at 0 dark hundred than
> my cell phone's little email beeps. Also, that would let me
> alert others that are not actively watching the cellphone,
> blackberry, etc.

Yes, we run a setup like this for precisely the same reasons.

> I want the system to call my home phone and tell me: "This is
> your friendly office Nagios system. Host X is down - service Y
> is not running. The time is now 02:43. Get your butt out of bed
> and fix it!"

Ours is not quite as... colorful :)

> I am thinking an interface with something like Asterisk might
> work. But, not having set up Asterisk before, I am not quite
> sure where to go. So, I plan on working on getting into it.

Here's where my knowledge ends, unfortunately. The system we use
is run by an entirely different company (inside the same
corporation) and our interface consists of sending well-formatted
mails. On top, it's a commercial software they use and as its
used for quite powerful applications (like menu systems and
informational phone systems in the area of several hundred
concurrent users), it probably is prohibitively expensive for
your use-case. But read on for another idea.

> I have found one other application that did something like this, and
> when I demod it, the voice quality really stunk, and I could not
> configure what it said, etc. And, I did not like the monitor aspect of
> it as well as I like Nagios.
> 
> Just wondering if I am reinventing the wheel, or does someone has a
> spare in the garage?

I guess one area where you might find *nearly* what you need
might be software answering machines, especially in the ISDN
world. I privately use CAPISuite for my answering machine.

I think coupling that with (say) Festival/mbrola etc. might just
work for you. I don't know about their speech quality though. 

Hope this helps a bit,
Tobias
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