[hobbit] fallback alert service

[White, Bruce]

Since you can provide your own script for alerts, there is no reason you
can't build the needed fallback logic into that custom script. Something
like:
 
if [ first service down ];then
   use second service to send alert
else
   use first service to send alert.
fi
 
I just finished customizing my alert script to allow a single code as the
person getting an alert and then within the script, redirect the alert to
the person from our help desk who happens to have the 7x24 duty this week.
In this way we don't need to have a single pager which gets passed from
person to person and sometimes gets lost.   The on-call people only need to
run a script on the hobbit server to change the info for who is on-call.
The script they run also sends a notice to the person now getting the
alerts, so they can verify the pages are working to the new person.
 
        ......Bruce
 

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From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:22 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] fallback alert service


I've used the txt.att.com <http://txt.att.com>  for a couple of years and
not once missed any alerts or notifications of voicemail.  I really can't
help you beyond this point.  Though I would yell at my mobile provider if
that was my situation! 

Sorry!


On 11/14/07, Joost van den Broek <joost at seat-ibiza.nl
<mailto:joost at seat-ibiza.nl> > wrote: 

Well, that's not my problem. I indeed use the email2sms gateway from my
mobile provider, and that's also exactly my problem. I'm monitoring the
MX servers of this gateway and they, unfortunately, go down too often. 
That's why it would be nice if there could be some dependency system on
the alerts, so in case these servers are down it will use another
address / script. I guess this could be scripted completely (external 
from Hobbit), but why not use Hobbit's ability to determine which
gateway servers are/aren't available for alerting?

Joost

Josh Luthman schreef:
> What myself and others do is use things like 9371231234 at txt.att.com
<mailto:9371231234 at txt.att.com> 
> <mailto:9371231234 at txt.att.com <mailto:9371231234 at txt.att.com> > or
whatever it is for your cell
> phone.  Just a quick Google =) 


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