[BBLISA] A summary: emergency pagers

[Christopher Allison]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Internaut at Large wrote:

> Is there any reason why we can't use text-to-speech?  I mean, have 
> Nagios call phones

Dave Josephson covered this in his February 2009 "iVoyeur" column in 
Usenix ";login:". The first half of the article covers sending SMS from 
Nagios via a cellphone tethered to the Nagios box, the second half covers 
using said cellphone + Asterisk to provide a fallback to audible alerts, 
and proposes extending this further by implementing phone-based menus to 
process responses.

Since it has been a year since publication, the PDF is now freely 
available online (no subscription/login required):

Article: "iVoyeur: Message in a Bottle -- Replacing Email Warnings with 
SMS" by Dave Josephsen

ToC: http://usenix.org/publications/login/2009-02/
PDF: http://usenix.org/publications/login/2009-02/pdfs/josephsen.pdf

-Chris Allison
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Systems Administrator,
Michtom School of Computer Science, Brandeis University
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/