On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Internaut at Large wrote: > Is there any reason why we can't use text-to-speech? I mean, have > Nagios call phones
Dave Josephson covered this in his February 2009 "iVoyeur" column in Usenix ";login:". The first half of the article covers sending SMS from Nagios via a cellphone tethered to the Nagios box, the second half covers using said cellphone + Asterisk to provide a fallback to audible alerts, and proposes extending this further by implementing phone-based menus to process responses. Since it has been a year since publication, the PDF is now freely available online (no subscription/login required): Article: "iVoyeur: Message in a Bottle -- Replacing Email Warnings with SMS" by Dave Josephsen ToC: http://usenix.org/publications/login/2009-02/ PDF: http://usenix.org/publications/login/2009-02/pdfs/josephsen.pdf -Chris Allison -- Systems Administrator, Michtom School of Computer Science, Brandeis University http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/ _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
