[lug] Nagios SMS Messaging

[George Sexton]

I thought I would share some information about Nagios and SMS.

 

If you want to do SMS messaging via wireless, then it's fairly straight
forward. There are a lot of hardware device solutions that you can purchase.
All you have to do is install a SIM card from a wireless provider in them
and you're off. This would be a pretty good solution if you were in a
colocation environment. The latest issue of Linux Journal has an article on
this. The downside is this would be a pretty expensive solution. Still if
you don't have a POTS line handy, then it's the way to go.

 

If you want to use a modem and POTS. The solution I got working was to use
QuickPage. Here's a blog entry that discusses how to do it:

 

http://www.dynowski.com/blog/?p=62

 

and here's a link to QuickPage's site:

 

http://www.qpage.org/

 

QuickPage was trivial to compile and get working. The hardest thing I had to
do was locate a PCI Express Serial/Parallel port add-in card for my machine.
After much hunting, I found one at MicroCenter for $45. For a modem I'm
using a 14.4 Practical Peripherals modem that I've had for probably 20
years.

 

Overall, I'm liking Nagios. It's flexibility is amazing. I have a problem
periodically where an update to CLAMD will clobber the configuration, making
it not listen on the network. I wrote a service that uses Check By SSH from
a host in that network to check CLAMD on the other machine. You could
literally make a full time career out of setting up Nagios to check every
conceivable thing on your network.

 

 

George Sexton

MH Software, Inc.

303 438-9585

www.mhsoftware.com

 

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