[BBLISA] A summary: emergency pagers

[Internaut at Large]

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
> 
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