How do you wake up an iPhone user???

[Assaf Flatto]

  Have them use a decent phone ??

Sorry couldn't resist ..

But more to the point .. i encountered a similar issue with nagios texts 
(alerts) not waking up the receiver of the alert , what we did was 
switch from alert in text format to nagios contacting our VOIP server 
and initiate a call to the contact defined and use a Text-To-Speech to 
generate the "call " .

Most people will wake up when a phone cal comes it , and i suspect that 
the iPhone ring tone is loud enough .

On 10/09/10 09:04, Furnish, Trever G wrote:
> Thought I would poll the list on this one to see what everyone else is
> doing.
>
> The iphone won't let a user specify a custom sound for a text message
> alert (unless it's jailbroken).  It won't repeat the notification sound
> frequently (once every three seconds, for example).  The existing
> notification sounds aren't loud enough or long enough to wake up most
> people.  Most of the folks I serve have started to complain that Nagios
> can't wake them up -- it's really an iphone problem though.
>
> Has anyone else come up with a good solution and actually put it into
> use?  I am considering several options:
>
> 1. Write my own iphone app to make the thing go nuts when a text message
> is ignored for more than a few minutes.
>
> 2. Write my own  system to cause a simple v.Everything modem to call
> someone and read them an alert using speex or set up an asterix gateway
> to allow such a call to be placed.
>
> 3. Use an outside service such as pagerduty or alarmtilt.
>
> I don't quite have the skill for #1, and I don't want to deal with
> detecting answering machines for #2, so I'm surprised to find myself
> leaning towards #3.
>
> But what has everyone else done?  Is no one else having to deal with
> this?
>
>

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