How to receive notification alert by sms tomobile phone using Nagios

[Andrew Davis]

Like any other test...

I do a simple http test to msn.com like you'd test any website with the 
standard plugin.
I do a ping test to yahoo.com since they allow pings still (unlike many 
companies).
And I do a dig to google.com.

Those three are each defined as a host, then put in a hostgroup called 
"sanity check". If one test fails, I assume there's an issue on there 
end and ignore it. If two fail, same thing. If all three fail, I know my 
ISP connection is down. The contactgroup for the hostgroup for these 
hosts goes to SMS (mine and the mgr at our ISP).

  A. Davis
  Email:     nccomp at gmail.com

  "There is no limit to what a man can accomplish
   if he doesn't care who gets the credit." - Ronald Reagan



Mirza Dedic wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
>  
>
> How are you configuring your sanity checks in Nagios?
>
>  
>
> Thanks.
>
>  
>
> *From:* Andrew Davis [mailto:nccomp at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* March/11/2009 9:39 AM
> *To:* Martyn
> *Cc:* 'Onotsky, Steve x55328'; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] How to receive notification alert by sms 
> tomobile phone using Nagios
>
>  
>
> A combination of the "parents", hostgroups, and escalation. I'll post 
> my configs later, but once you have confirmed that SMS is setup and 
> working (make sure that for every email alert, you also get an SMS 
> alert), then you define your network topology and put them into 
> hostgroups. In my case, I have a hostgroup of "network-core" which 
> includes my core routers, firewalls, Exchange server, Exchange 
> storage, and the switch connecting the Exchange system with the 
> firewall. I then have a contactgroup of the SMS addresses of three key 
> people (myself included). If any of those device fail, Nagios sends 
> notification via SMS. If anything else fails, it goes via emails. The 
> kewl thing is I'll often sleep through emails, but if I get an SMS, I 
> know something serious failed and I force myself to get up...
>
> Additionally, I tend to define a sanity check: a ping to yahoo and 
> http to MSN and non-caching dns query of Google. If all sanity checks 
> fail and are not resolved within 4 hours, then through escalations, an 
> SMS is sent to the manager of the support team at our ISP as we likely 
> have a bandwidth down issue. If sanity checks AND a core network 
> device fail, my ISP doesn't get notified as we know its us...
>
>  
>   A. Davis
>   Email:     nccomp at gmail.com <mailto:nccomp at gmail.com>
>  
>   "There is no limit to what a man can accomplish
>    if he doesn't care who gets the credit." - Ronald Reagan
>
>
>
> Martyn wrote:
>
> Beat me too it with the same question
>
>  
>
> Martyn
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:* Onotsky, Steve x55328 [mailto:Steve.Onotsky at broadridge.com]
> *Sent:* 11 March 2009 15:55
> *To:* nccomp at gmail.com <mailto:nccomp at gmail.com>; 
> nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
> <mailto:nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] How to receive notification alert by sms 
> tomobile phone using Nagios
>
> I've been messing around with this, off and on (as time permits).  How 
> did you set up your config to go to SMS only if email fails?
>
>  
>
> Thanks
>
>  
>
>  
>
> Steve Onotsky
>
> Server Support Technologist
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> Broadridge
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> Inet: steve.onotsky at broadridge.com <mailto:steve.onotsky at broadridge.com>
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> /Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?/
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> - Juvenal, /Satires/, VI, 347
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>  
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:* Andrew Davis [mailto:nccomp at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* March 11, 2009 11:35
> *To:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
> <mailto:nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] How to receive notification alert by sms 
> to mobile phone using Nagios
>
>  
>
> In "Nagios 2nd Edition" from Wolfgang Barth, he covers this in section 
> 12.4.2. He covers "smsclient", "yasp", and "smssend", but he points 
> out what Jim pointed out... most are email to SMS conversion tools so 
> if email is done, you're still not notified. "smsclient" and a modem 
> resolve this. I have it installed and working fine. Our normal 
> notifications go via email, but if a network device or email server is 
> down, then notifications go via SMS.
>
>
>  
>   A. Davis
>   Email:     nccomp at gmail.com <mailto:nccomp at gmail.com>
>  
>   "There is no limit to what a man can accomplish
>    if he doesn't care who gets the credit." - Ronald Reagan
>
>
>
> Jim Avery wrote:
>
> 2009/3/11 tsedendorj oyunbat <t_oyunbat at yahoo.com> <mailto:t_oyunbat at yahoo.com>:
>   
>
>     I'm new one in Nagios system.
>
>     I work in mobile cellular operator company. And I need to know is there any
>
>     chance to get notification alert via sms to my mobile phone when BSC or HLR
>
>     equipments go down or stop working?
>
>     Is there any configuration on Nagios? And how to connect Nagios server to
>
>     sms center.
>
>         
>
>  
> Currently I use an external email-sms service similar to
> http://www.intellisms.co.uk so I can send emails from Nagios in the
> usual way and have them converted to SMS.  It's extremely easy to set
> up, but has the disadvantage that if the email system goes down, we
> don't know about it!
>  
> Alternatively, you could connect a mobile 'phone to your Nagios server
> and send SMS using gnokii http://www.gnokii.org/ or similar, or your
> mobile operator might well have an http interface you could use or can
> recommend other options.
>  
> In Nagios, you specify the notification methods in command definitions
> which you can write yourself so it's extremely flexible.  See
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/notifications.html under the
> heading "Notification Methods".
>  
> hth,
>  
> Jim
>  
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