This app solves the problem for me on Android: http://software.roadkill.com/CustomSMS/
I never did get around this issue when I had an iPhone, though. Setting your Nagios alerts to repeat at an interval that's a multiple of the iPhone's alert-repeat was about the best I could do. Mike On 09/10/2010 07:56 AM, Greg Pangrazio wrote: > The only drawback to the android version is that your nagios server > has to be publically accessable. Mine is not and so those do not > work. I did set up a test server and was pretty happy with the > results. > > I have not used the iPhone version. > > Greg Pangrazio > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Dorfman, Justin<[email protected]> wrote: >> Have you checked out: >> iNag? http://idevelop.fullnet.com/iapps/modules/apps/inag.php >> For Android peeps: >> I have Nagroid for my Droid >> (http://frugalinfotech.com/woot/4-free-must-have-android-apps-for-sysadmins/) >> Regards, >> >> Justin Dorfman >> Mahalo.com Inc.> Jr. Systems Engineer >> 818.485.1458 >> @jdorfman | @MahaloSysops | Blog: http://bit.ly/aNiWSk >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Furnish, Trever G >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Thought I would poll the list on this one to see what everyone else is >>> doing. >>> >>> The iphone won't let a user specify a custom sound for a text message >>> alert (unless it's jailbroken). It won't repeat the notification sound >>> frequently (once every three seconds, for example). The existing >>> notification sounds aren't loud enough or long enough to wake up most >>> people. Most of the folks I serve have started to complain that Nagios >>> can't wake them up -- it's really an iphone problem though. >>> >>> Has anyone else come up with a good solution and actually put it into >>> use? I am considering several options: >>> >>> 1. Write my own iphone app to make the thing go nuts when a text message >>> is ignored for more than a few minutes. >>> >>> 2. Write my own system to cause a simple v.Everything modem to call >>> someone and read them an alert using speex or set up an asterix gateway >>> to allow such a call to be placed. >>> >>> 3. Use an outside service such as pagerduty or alarmtilt. >>> >>> I don't quite have the skill for #1, and I don't want to deal with >>> detecting answering machines for #2, so I'm surprised to find myself >>> leaning towards #3. >>> >>> But what has everyone else done? 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