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

[Phillip Hofmeister]

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 at 09:18:11AM -0500, Tim Gray wrote:
> I've implemented Nagios here at work and it's a wonderful thing. 
> 
> 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?

You could always have an email message sent to the phone (is it a cell
phone?) and depending on the features of the cell phone, set off a
distinctive tone if a message from <this> address arrives....

just some thoughts.

-- 
Phillip Hofmeister