As a member of the Deaf community I would want that to be an option, not an exclusive direction.
- Tony Rudié -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Internaut at Large Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:23 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [BBLISA] A summary: emergency pagers Greetings, Something occurred to me in reading this. Is there any reason why we can't use text-to-speech? I mean, have Nagios call phones, and read the error, or play a pre-recorded error message over the voice-line, and listen for a response? ("Hit 1 to acknowledge you are on the problem, Hang up, or hit 2 to pass this on to the next person in the tree." or the like.) Especially with VoIP so common nowadays ... Just thinking of the future, -dkap On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 10:26 -0400, Ryan Pugatch wrote: > Here is a summary of solutions mentioned in response to my posting to > BBLISA and SAGE: > > - Dean Anderson mentions this article: > http://www.linuxjournal.com/files/linuxjournal.com/ufiles/LJ191_UsingSMSforNagios.pdf > > which involves using an SMS device to interface with Nagios. The > MultiTech device in the article is mentioned by Daniel Rich. > > - Lukas Karlsson uses QuickPage - http://www.qpage.org/ with a modem and > POTS line. There were a few others suggesting qpage as well. > > - Derek Balling suggests the Siemens TC65T - several others recommend > using an old cell phone or modem to send the texts directly. > > - Jens Link and Daniel Rich mentioned the decreasing lack of support for > TAP (and also lack of support for WCTP) > > - Several suggestions about having multiple types of notification in > case one fails. > > - Brian de Smet suggests www.pagerduty.com but Phil Pennock said his > colleague had encountered some trouble with them. > > - A couple of people mentioned that AT&T has an enterprise paging option > that gives you an SLA for your texts. http://enterprisepaging.com/faq.jsp > > > I hope I didn't miss any of the suggestions. > > I think the route I am going to go is to grab a MultiTech iSMS and put > it on to AT&T with an enterprise paging plan. Then I can have big > brother use the API to send messages. > > > Thanks all for your suggestions. > > Ryan > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
