Using a modem with Nagios as backup alert path

[Frater, Greg J]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Russell Adams [mailto:RLAdams at AdamsInfoServ.Com] 
>Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:12 PM
>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Using a modem with Nagios as backup alert
path

>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?

The modem is sending sms messages.

>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.

I guess I need to have a closer look at the sendpage config, there's
probably a way to do that I just did take the time to dig into it.

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