Using a modem with Nagios as backup alert path

[Russell Adams]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 03:05:54PM -0800, Frater, Greg J wrote:
> Greetings All, 
> 
> We are setting up a new Nagios instance running version 3.  With it we
> are adding a modem so that alerts can be sent via the phone system even
> if the data network goes down.  In the testing I've done messages sent
> via the modem take quite a bit longer to be received than alerts sent
> via SMTP, this is because the modem goes through the dial up connection
> process and then sends the messages to each recipient in separate
> sessions, so I want to keep SMTP as the primary method and use the modem
> as a backup path.  What is the best way to do this, can we do it without
> a bunch of work to implement?  Suggestions and advice gladly accepted.
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> -greg

What are you sending via modem, SMS, text pages? Are you connecting to
an ISP via PPP to fire off one SMTP message?

I have successfully used Sendpage with Nagios to send to IXO/TAP text
pagers, and it supports piggybacking to send out multiple pages in a
single phone call. I think it supports sending SMS too.

Good luck.

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