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

Jonathan Meek jonathan.l.meek at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 11:13:09 EST 2012


Would love to see it in action. I am sure I will find a use for it down the
road after I get done being a masters degree student.


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Erik Mathis <erik at mathists.com> wrote:

>  pagerduty.com
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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.
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> -Erik-
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> On 12/10/2012 10:25 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
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>  +1****
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> 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.   ****
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> 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.****
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> 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:****
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> Dave?  What are you doing Dave?...****
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> *From:* ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org<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.****
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> Maybe I'm missing something.   I do this all the time by having our
> servers email <myphonenumber>@vtext.com.    Converts to an SMS message.
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> 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.
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> I'd rather get an SMS text message I can read whilst otherwise occupied,
> versus an audio I have to listen to.
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> Neal
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> On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 09:33 -0500, Dennis Ruzeski wrote: ****
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> I'd be very interested in this! I  recently took a job with a place****
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> that does alot of VOIP stuff and some quick and dirty one-liners that****
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> might help troubleshooting would be a great.****
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> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:****
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> > Sounds cool!****
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> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Richard Bronosky <richard at bronosky.com>****
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> >> For the ATT mobile hackathon on the 30th I made a project that uses call****
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> >> management web APIs. (Because it increased the prize pool from $300 to $500.****
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> >> This was a good choice as I ended up winning first prize.)****
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> >> One of the gems was that I learned how to use a simple curl command to****
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> >> call my phone. Now, doing something useful with that call (text to speech,****
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> >> speech to text, or IVR menu tree) gets pretty complex, however making the****
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> >> call can be pretty powerful alone. Let's say you put curl command in a****
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> >> script named "callme". You can then go:****
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> >> rsync /path server:/path || callme****
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> >> Then, if that rsync command that you expected to take 4 hours fails, you****
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> >> get a call and don't lose half your day. Or, you can use a semicolon instead****
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> >> of the double pipe and it calls you no matter what. There will be no one on****
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> >> the other end of the call, but in this most basic form it is still pretty****
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> >> useful.****
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> >> With a little bit more work I ought to be able to make it except an****
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> >> argument that gets passed to the text to speech API. Then you could use it****
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> >> for alerts of a less binary nature:****
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> >> callme "I just met you and this is crazy"****
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> >> (If you get that joke, I hope you have young girls at home.)****
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> >> Would anyone be interested in seeing this? It'll take a little effort to****
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