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color=#0000ff size=2>Howdy,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>We use the gnokii software for sending sms
alerts via a serial connected mobile phone. This software also has the ability
to receive sms messages.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>We use the receive function to acknowledge host and service
alerts. We do the by replying with the original sms message. a script then looks
up the sending mobile number in the contacts to retrieve the nagios user and
uses that user to acknowledge the alert.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>The script is a bit crude in that it uses wget to
post the acknowledgment through the web interface instead of using the
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size=2>external command interface. But then that is only because I have yet to fond out what the external command is.</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=781590601-03082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I know
this is not email but it is very simple for acknowlegments.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT><FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2>C<SPAN
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Thuys.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Chris
Waters<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, July 31, 2004 8:02 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Nagios-users] Management
from a Cell phone<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Has anyone been successful in sending commands to Nagios from a
cell phone or similar device via email? I am thinking of writing some
procmail filters/actions to do some things like parse return emails from my
trouble ticket system and then add the ticket number in a comment. Along
those lines, I was wondering if anyone has developed a method for acknowledging
host down alerts by sending an email back to the nagios server. It would
seem that processing an external command that is initiated from procmail would
do the trick. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Has anyone done this or something similar.</FONT> </P><BR>
<P><FONT size=2>Trying not to re-invent the wheel,</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>Chris Waters</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>--"The conclusive proof that intelligent life exists elsewhere
in the universe lies in the fact that nobody has bothered to contact
us"--unknown</FONT></P></BODY></HTML>