running an external script for sms notification

[Metron 6 (six)]

we have an account in a bulk-sms server, and i'm using curl to call a
page, and send the sms..

anyway, it was a permissions problem, the script couldnt write to the log file..


On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Manish Kumar <manikumar85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi what I am interested in is what your sendsms script contains are u using
> email-to-sms gateway or some external hardware sms gateway or some linux
> utility like send-sms tools to achieve the same.
>
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Jim Avery <jim at jimavery.me.uk> wrote:
>>
>> On 15 September 2011 10:35, Metron 6 (six) <metron6 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > hello all,
>> >
>> > i have a shell script which takes two arguments, the mobile phone
>> > number and the text message, which sends sms notifications.
>> > for example /usr/local/bin/sendsms 6944444444 "host problem"
>> >
>> > when i debug Nagios, i can see this into the log file
>> >
>> > [1316012199.774170] [256.1] [pid=17625] Running command
>> > '/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/sendsms 6944420xxx "Type:PROBLEM, Host:
>> > 00-dummy_2, State: DOWN, Address: 194.145.127.44, Info: Unknown ping
>> > number, Date/Time: 14-09-2011"'...
>> >
>> > when i run from a terminal the command
>> > /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/sendsms 6944420xxx "Type:PROBLEM, Host:
>> > 00-dummy_2, State: DOWN, Address: 194.145.127.44, Info: Unknown ping
>> > number, Date/Time: 14-09-2011"
>> > sms message arrives normally....
>> >
>> > this is how i include the command into nagios conf files..
>> >
>> > define command{
>> >       command_name                    host-notify-by-sms
>> >       command_line                    /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/sendsms
>> > $CONTACTPAGER$ "Type:$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$, Host: $HOSTNAME$, State:
>> > $HOSTSTATE$, Address: $HOSTADDRESS$, Info: $HOSTOUTPUT$, Date/Time:
>> > $DATE$"
>> > }
>> >
>> > any help/suggestions ?
>>
>> Looks ok to me.  Am I right in assuming that when Nagios runs the
>> command you receive no SMS at all?  Or do you receive something but in
>> the wrong format?
>>
>> When you run the command from the command-line, are you logged in as
>> 'nagios'?  If not it could be a simple permissions problem.
>>
>>
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>
>
> --
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