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

Tue Dec 11 00:49:05 EST 2012

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cheap and works really well. you can setup how much to annoy you and how 
to annoy you, will even stop the never ending pages.

-Erik-

On 12/10/2012 10:25 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>
> +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!
> >  
> > Pete Hardie
> > --------
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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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