[TriLUG] Excellent meeting, and a question

[Jon Carnes]

We have it setup (not the Festival part - but the dial up alert part...)
The basic info you need to setup Asterisk to dial out on an Alert is
right here:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+auto-dial+out

Enjoy!

Jon

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 22:03, Chris Knowles wrote:
> Many Kudos to our esteemed presenters Jason and Ian for an excellent
> presentation on a really exciting project.
> 
> (Can you tell I use Nagios every day?)
> 
> A member of the peanut gallery (Thank you David) mentioned an off the
> cuff idea of using Asterisk and Festival to have the system call your
> voice # with alerts.  
> 
> At first I thought this idea just so much silliness, but in talking it
> over with people, it occurred to me that this, with a prompt to dial 7
> (or whatever your favorite number is) to acknowledge the problem would
> be excellent.
> 
> My knowledge of Asterisk not being what it perhaps should be, I just
> wanted to know if this is remotely possible?  Is it, perhaps, easily
> done?  The only thing that Asterisk would have to do is echo a line into
> a file so that Nagios can pick it up and act on the acknowledgment.
> 
> Thanks to the presenters, and thanks to any Asterisk people for their
> advice.
> 
> CJK