<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Re: [Nagios-users] Thought for an alert</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>Ok, This you must share!!!</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>Any helpful hints?</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> From: Mark Musone [mailto:mmusone@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 1:43 PM To: Jason Branscum Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Thought for an alert </DIV> <DIV></DIV> We currently do this using Asterisk. which, as an added bonus can use a pot line or VOIP. Mixing it with festival provised text to speech. An added bonus is the ability to dial-in to the system, and "press 1 for current alerts, press 2 to restart apache...etc.." -Mark On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:57:37 -0500 (CDT), Jason Branscum <jasonb@teletouch.net> wrote: > > > Hey Guys (in a non-gender sort of way, of course) > > I had an interesting thought this morning but have been quite unsuccessful > in finding ways to go about this. > > The scenario: > > You are a small business hosting a website customers connect to, one > internet connection to a local uplink provider, one router handling all > this traffic. This is a pretty common scenario; Most small business don't > use BGP or failover connectivity.. heck, some of my customer use DSL to do > major hosting. Your nagios server is located on-site and is set to send > SMS messages when a host goes down. > > The disaster: > > The above scenario has two points of failure (PoF), the Internet router > and the Internet link itself (a T1 in this case). One night, tragicly, > your T1 line goes down as someone installs a new fence in their backyard > and cuts right through a cable mistaken for a tree root with their rented > backhoe (sound famiallier anyone). Your nagios server tries to alert you > but is unable to because of the link being down. Customers are furious > and you're sound asleep dreaming about profits. > > The fix: > > I'd like to investigate using a unix machine (or Win32 if I _had_ to) that > I can order to Dial a cell phone, Speak a message "Link to SOMEISP down, > help!" or even the standard nagios host-notify out of misccommands.cfg and > then hang-up. Wouldn't that be neat? Right now, I have Zetron's that can > do this, they'll wake me up in the middle of the night to tell me the > power is out a a tower site but have no computer interface. > > Usually googling will come up with answers on any subject but frankly I am > stumped and cannot find any help for this over the internet. Something > tells me I have a long road ahead of me but my perl skills are up and > prepared to code anything I need. What I'd like from ya'll is any kind of > programs you know (unix preferably) that will use SAPI (text to speech) > and/or dial-out scripts that will allow audio input. If nothing else, I > can record the .WAV files myself (although it would be messy) and have > said dialer call a cell phone and play pre-recorded messages.. which is > why SAPI or the like is preferable.. you give SAPI some text and it says > it (in a robotish voice) rather than having 100 megs of WAV files sitting > dormant. > > Any help would rock the casbah! If I actually come up with anything wprth > using, I'll be happy to share. > > Jason > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. > Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - > digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, > unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > <A href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</A> > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. 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