[KLUG Members] Playing a sound file on the phone ...

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Notifications go out through our email server, but when the email server goes 
> down, we don't hear anything about it from Nagios.
> What I'd like to do is make a script that will call the mail server's admin 
> and play him a message on his cell phone, making allowances for voicemail 
> delays and whatnot.
> Is there hardware and/or software that will make such a set up easier/better 
> than trying to hack it together with and old modem, a cheap phone and a 
> soldering iron?

I've looked, the answer is pretty much "no".  The only hope you have is
to call the phone via a third party VOIP gateway.  You might be able to
do it via Asterisk+XP100 (the old single line POTS PCI card, you can get
them on E-bay *CHEAP*),  but I don't know of any already-written
mechanism for placing an OUTBOUND analog call automatically.

Perhaps you can just create a mechanism for the monitoring box to send
e-mail independent of the corporate relay.
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