Sending a txt message as acknowledgement for event

[Nagios Mail]

Patrick ~

I just set this up myself, so I'll share some of the details on how I got it
working.

First off you'll need a way for the email's to reach the nagios inbox. In
our example I setup fetchmail on our CentOS box to check Exchange every 15
seconds for mail using POP3.

once you have that configured and mail is going into the inbox on your linux
machine for the nagios account, you'll need to configure procmail.
Now if your on a redhat system (or flavor) procmail is setup by default.
(Otherwise you may need to install/configure)
So you'll need to setup a .procmailrc file in the nagios users home
directory (or place a procmailrc file in /etc).

Procmail should be setup to kick off a script (that you'll need to write) to
process the incoming mail and if a problem is acknowledged, place an
acknowledgment in the nagios.cmd file.

Like I said, the first process in fixing this puzzle is getting mail to the
nagios server from an SMS device. Once there it should be pretty straight
forward.

Let me know if this makes sense.

Josh




On 2/21/07, patrickm <patrickm at garlic.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the response.  To send txt messages, we have Verizon, so we
> send to 1234567890 at vtext.com.  I hit reply on my phone and a few seconds
> later I received a bounceback from the mail server where Nagios is..so I
> think we might be in business.
>
> What would I have to do from here?  From the looks of your e-mail, it
> sounds like I need to code something very detailed...
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Patrick
>
>
>
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:11:47 +1000, Az <az at whoever.org> wrote:
> > patrickm wrote:
> >> Is it possible to reply to a txt message that is sent from the nagios
> > server as acknowledgement when an event occurs, like an unreachable
> server
> > or other events?
> > The short answer is, yes.
> >
> > The long answer is, it depends on how you sent the SMS in the first
> > place. If you are using some cheapy internet-based solution, then I
> > doubt they have any return path feature. If you are sending via GSM
> > modems, then yes. We do this now and have been for 2 years. If you have
> > a direct link into a carriers' SMSC, then it will depend on their
> > solution. We are looking to move this way in the near future, and our
> > carrier has a return path solution.
> >
> > The guts of the solution is just code that parses the SMS back and hands
> > it off to Nagios using the external command features. In our case, we
> > reply/forward the entire SMS as-is back to sending device, which can
> > easily parse the SMS given we know the exact format it left in anyhow.
> > Plus, the same system handles other inbound and outbound SMSs with ease.
>
>
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