TBH I don't use Beep Manager, and send all my external pingdom alerts
to PagerDuty :)

-n

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Morgan Blackthorne
<[email protected]> wrote:
> My understanding about the Beep Manager service was that it only applied to
> the alerts from Pingdom itself. If it's something we can use with Nagios,
> that might be worth looking into since we already use them for critical
> checks.
>
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> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Nathan Hruby <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> PagerDuty is well worth the investment.
>>
>> The time saved by not having to maintain alerting infrastructure and
>> being able to quickly and easily manage oncall and alerting with
>> multiple contact methods more than covers the cost of PD.  I've done
>> this at multiple sites, including managing the script you refer to at
>> /. -- it really isn't worth it anymore.
>>
>> With geographically dispersed teams, it's even nicer since
>> follow-the-sun rotations and easy overrides / maintence windows help
>> prevent on-call spam outside of business hours from a single point
>> instead of all the alert sources.
>>
>> I'm also a fan of the iCal feed for your on-call rotation.  Not only
>> is it handy for planning oncall duties around vacations, but in cases
>> where you're going to cover oncall for a few hours for someone, the
>> schedule override pops into your calendar as well so you're not
>> surprised when you get paged.
>>
>> Pingdom recently launched a PagerDuty competitor as well called Beep
>> Manager Pro, and I believe several other Monitorig-As-A-Service
>> platforms have similar features that you may want to look at.
>>
>> -n
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:09 AM, Nathan Clemons <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > We're looking to set up small teams in nagios and rotate between primary
>> > and secondary contacts, vs having one global on call person. (Ie, two
>> > networking folks, two vmware folks, two Unix folks, etc.) What kind of
>> > solutions have folks tried for this? Pagerduty seems excessively priced for
>> > this kind of task, especially when we're trying to trim opex costs. When I
>> > worked at /. we used sendmail aliases to control the paging and just ran a
>> > script from cron to adjust the list to the next person in line on Monday
>> > morning.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
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