xymon push notifications?
Does anyone happen to have a script that can take xymon alerts and push them to an android phone via Google's Cloud to Device push notifications? We're trying to find a more reliable way to notify technicians. Our on-call phone is an Android device and for a long time we used to use the email to SMS gateway, but those messages were getting throttled or just dropped/lost altogether. We then decided that maybe using Gmail would work well because Google tightly couples Gmail with the phone and the notifications are quite fast and reliable. Well, we're now discovering that Google is throttling emails to our GMail address preventing us from receiving notifications...
Any suggestions or tips that you might have would be greatly appreciated. A Xymon push-notification app and a script to pipe the alerts through would probably be a quite reliable solution. I may consider investigating this myself.
Thanks
You could take a look at this:
http://www.xymonton.org/alerts:gtalk
I don't know if it still works, with the various changes Google has been making recently.
Ralph Mitchell
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Mark Felder <feld at feld.me> wrote:
Does anyone happen to have a script that can take xymon alerts and push them to an android phone via Google's Cloud to Device push notifications? We're trying to find a more reliable way to notify technicians. Our on-call phone is an Android device and for a long time we used to use the email to SMS gateway, but those messages were getting throttled or just dropped/lost altogether. We then decided that maybe using Gmail would work well because Google tightly couples Gmail with the phone and the notifications are quite fast and reliable. Well, we're now discovering that Google is throttling emails to our GMail address preventing us from receiving notifications...
Any suggestions or tips that you might have would be greatly appreciated. A Xymon push-notification app and a script to pipe the alerts through would probably be a quite reliable solution. I may consider investigating this myself.
Thanks
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
On 14 July 2013 01:19, Mark Felder <feld at feld.me> wrote:
Does anyone happen to have a script that can take xymon alerts and push them to an android phone via Google's Cloud to Device push notifications?
I've heard good things about Pushover.net. It's a non-free app (Android and iPhone) but it's really easy to integrate into whatever you need using simple webby tools like curl - or any tool or language that supports post requests. I haven't tried it myself, but it looks really easy to use.
This uses their own servers to convert the request into the Googly API. I'd prefer to not rely on a third-party for this kind of thing - when they go bust or when Google restrict the service, you'd have to start over. But might be the fastest way to get something up-and-running.
J
Hi Mark,
I've just started using gammu with a USB GSM Modem.
It works fine but it's way too early for me to be able to comment about throughput.
Regards
Jeremy
On 13/07/2013 16:19, Mark Felder wrote:
Does anyone happen to have a script that can take xymon alerts and push them to an android phone via Google's Cloud to Device push notifications? We're trying to find a more reliable way to notify technicians. Our on-call phone is an Android device and for a long time we used to use the email to SMS gateway, but those messages were getting throttled or just dropped/lost altogether. We then decided that maybe using Gmail would work well because Google tightly couples Gmail with the phone and the notifications are quite fast and reliable. Well, we're now discovering that Google is throttling emails to our GMail address preventing us from receiving notifications...
Any suggestions or tips that you might have would be greatly appreciated. A Xymon push-notification app and a script to pipe the alerts through would probably be a quite reliable solution. I may consider investigating this myself.
Thanks
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon .
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