[ale] Ring, ring, it's your computer calling. Your process has completed.

[Lightner, Jeff]

+1

We use Nagios for monitoring and it sends email and/or text messages to cell phones depending on what we choose in the configuration files for each host and service we monitor.

A co-worker here told me at his last job they used a commercial system that would call them and tell them things from monitoring but usually it would wake you up so you didn’t really get a chance to figure out what it was trying to tell you before it hung up.

However, as an open source project it does sound cool and I think other applications than monitoring might be good.  Unless of course you get the call that goes:

Dave?  What are you doing Dave?...





From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Neal Rhodes
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 9:56 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Ring, ring, it's your computer calling. Your process has completed.

Maybe I'm missing something.   I do this all the time by having our servers email <myphonenumber>@vtext.com.    Converts to an SMS message.

Just make darn sure you throttle the number of messages.   It's no fun to get 60 text messages a minute when it really goes off into the weeds.

I'd rather get an SMS text message I can read whilst otherwise occupied, versus an audio I have to listen to.

Neal

On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 09:33 -0500, Dennis Ruzeski wrote:



I'd be very interested in this! I  recently took a job with a place

that does alot of VOIP stuff and some quick and dirty one-liners that

might help troubleshooting would be a great.



On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com<mailto:pete.hardie at gmail.com>> wrote:

> Sounds cool!

>

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> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Richard Bronosky <richard at bronosky.com<mailto:richard at bronosky.com>>

> wrote:

>>

>> For the ATT mobile hackathon on the 30th I made a project that uses call

>> management web APIs. (Because it increased the prize pool from $300 to $500.

>> This was a good choice as I ended up winning first prize.)

>>

>> One of the gems was that I learned how to use a simple curl command to

>> call my phone. Now, doing something useful with that call (text to speech,

>> speech to text, or IVR menu tree) gets pretty complex, however making the

>> call can be pretty powerful alone. Let's say you put curl command in a

>> script named "callme". You can then go:

>> rsync /path server:/path || callme

>>

>> Then, if that rsync command that you expected to take 4 hours fails, you

>> get a call and don't lose half your day. Or, you can use a semicolon instead

>> of the double pipe and it calls you no matter what. There will be no one on

>> the other end of the call, but in this most basic form it is still pretty

>> useful.

>>

>> With a little bit more work I ought to be able to make it except an

>> argument that gets passed to the text to speech API. Then you could use it

>> for alerts of a less binary nature:

>> callme "I just met you and this is crazy"

>>

>> (If you get that joke, I hope you have young girls at home.)

>>

>> Would anyone be interested in seeing this? It'll take a little effort to

>> prepare.

>>

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