Re: [Nagios-users] SMS Alerts, what do you use?

2011-02-18 Thread Sean McAfee
On 02/17/11 23:11, Mirza Dedic wrote:
 Hi,

 I currently have Nagios running on a Ubuntu 10.04 VM on our virtual
 infrastructure, what I would like to do is enable SMS notification for some of
 the more “critical” notifications. Just wondering what you guys use out there
 and how you have it setup? Anyone share their experience on getting something
 reliable to work?

We use:
- Moxa OnCell G2110 (http://www.moxa.com/product/OnCell_G2100_G2150I.htm)
- SMSTools3 (http://smstools3.kekekasvi.com/)

Previously, we had a Cepag modem, but it locked up pretty frequently.

In about 2 years of having the Moxa, we've never had a missed page, locked up 
device, or any other problem (other than PETA spamming the number...)

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Re: [Nagios-users] SMS Alerts, what do you use?

2011-02-18 Thread Breandan Dezendorf
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Mirza Dedic mi...@oppy.com wrote:
 I currently have Nagios running on a Ubuntu 10.04 VM on our virtual
 infrastructure, what I would like to do is enable SMS notification for some
 of the more “critical” notifications. Just wondering what you guys use out
 there and how you have it setup? Anyone share their experience on getting
 something reliable to work?

We have two front end servers that alternate the notification role.
Using a pair of Nokia GSM mobile phones attached by their USB cables
to the servers for charging and for the data connection.  These are
being operated by gnokii-smsd.  We insert a notification message into
the database queue via a perl script that is called by the
notification handler.

The only trouble we've had is from before we switched over to
gnokii-smsd, and were just using gnokii.  If two notifications came in
at *just* the right time, the phone's USB port would hang attached to
a zombie process, and we'd have to reboot the server.  So, once or
twice a month we'd have to reboot one of the servers.  gnokii-smsd
solves that problem by queuing outgoing messages in a database.

Personally, I find that SMS is about as reliable as email for timely
notification.  However, we also offer jabber notifications, and I'm
working on being able to hit analog/celluar pagers from Nagios.

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[Nagios-users] SMS Alerts, what do you use?

2011-02-17 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hi,

I currently have Nagios running on a Ubuntu 10.04 VM on our virtual 
infrastructure, what I would like to do is enable SMS notification for some of 
the more critical notifications. Just wondering what you guys use out there 
and how you have it setup? Anyone share their experience on getting something 
reliable to work?

Thanks.



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Re: [Nagios-users] SMS Alerts, what do you use?

2011-02-17 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message -
 From: Mirza Dedic mi...@oppy.com

 I currently have Nagios running on a Ubuntu 10.04 VM on our virtual
 infrastructure, what I would like to do is enable SMS notification for
 some of the more critical notifications. Just wondering what you
 guys use out there and how you have it setup? Anyone share their
 experience on getting something reliable to work?

You will get different responses on this...

but using SMS for something that's *more* critical may not be your best
approach, seeing as how SMS is a non-reliable transport with no way to 
tell (in most cases) whether the destination addressee received the 
message and (in some cases) even whether the network did.

It depends on what your definition of is, er, I mean critical is. :-)

Cheers,
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Re: [Nagios-users] SMS Alerts, what do you use?

2011-02-17 Thread Mirza Dedic
I want to receive text version of some notifications in place (along with the 
standard email) for some of our systems; I already have the checks in place but 
what I want is them to be texted to me and not emailed. Sometimes emails get 
through the cracks, but I think SMS will work.

Also for a scenario where our email server does not work, say the service stops 
or the box becomes unresponsive this would be a 2nd way to get alerted 
regarding the issue.

That is the general idea of what I need SMS or an alternative way to get 
messages to my mobile device; and with the iPhone there is no custom email 
filters on messages (such as setting loud noise, etc. unless you jailbreak it 
and use cydia repo) but such control is there for texts.

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Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] SMS Alerts, what do you use?

- Original Message -
 From: Mirza Dedic mi...@oppy.com

 I currently have Nagios running on a Ubuntu 10.04 VM on our virtual
 infrastructure, what I would like to do is enable SMS notification for
 some of the more critical notifications. Just wondering what you
 guys use out there and how you have it setup? Anyone share their
 experience on getting something reliable to work?

You will get different responses on this...

but using SMS for something that's *more* critical may not be your best 
approach, seeing as how SMS is a non-reliable transport with no way to tell (in 
most cases) whether the destination addressee received the message and (in some 
cases) even whether the network did.

It depends on what your definition of is, er, I mean critical is. :-)

Cheers,
-- jra

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