I found a very simple solution to achieve this ! TeamTILT for Zenoss ! (www.teamtilt.com)
The TeamTILT client for Zenoss is a light Java application that enables the relaying of your Zenoss notifications to the TeamTILT platform. The alert can then be sent to multiple media types, SMS, voice call, email or iPhone push notification, without any additional hardware !
This application is without any contract. Email and iPhone push alerts are free of charge. Buy SMS and Voice alerts credits as you need them.
The prices are correct, here the price list (1 credit = 1 SMS or Voice call) :
| TeamTILT for Zenoss | 200 alert units | 32,00 Eur |
| TeamTILT for Zenoss | 1.000 alert units | 130,00 Eur |
| TeamTILT for Zenoss | 5.000 alert units | 550,00 Eur |
In addition, you have a very nice heartbeat function ! The heartbeat feature guarantees an ongoing connectivity check between the TeamTILT client and TeamTILT servers. Receive an alert directly from TeamTILT in case of a connectivity loss.
This guide is based on a distribution like RedHat/Fedora. If you use a distribution like Debian/Ubuntu, do not set yourself as root. Use instead the sudo command before launching all commands.
1. To start, set yourself as root user to install the client :
2. Unpack the archive containing the the installer folder :
3. A directory named « TeamTILTForZenoss » will be created and the owner of this directory set to Zenoss. The client will later be run as Zenoss user. If you have no Zenoss user defined, the client will be run as root user.
4. Download the file named 'License.txt' : Connect to the TeamTILT web interface and click on "TeamTILT with 3rd party". Then move this file to the TeamTILT installation directory and change the owner to Zenoss.
NOTE: several possibilities for you to download the license file. Either via wget or via the scp command. Do not hesitate to contact support if you experience difficulties.
5. Change the current directory to the newly created one and start the « runTeamTILT.sh » script :
NOTE: If you receive an error like "zenoss user doesn't have an appropriate connection shell.", just add a bash shell to the zenoss user. Edit the file "/etc/passwd", find the line beginning with "zenoss". On this line, change "/bin/nologin" with "/bin/bash".
6. You can find our terms and conditions in this directory, open the file named « Licence-TeamTILTClientForZenoss.txt ».
7. A communication test between the client and the TeamTILT platform will be performed to verify the connectivity.
NOTE: The port 80 must be opened to the internet !
8. The client will check if you have the latest version of the client, and offer the possibility to download it shouldn’t it be the case.
9. After the account creation, the client is started and a cron task is added to restart the client if a problem occurs.
# Added by Nagios at Thu Jul 29 14:53:23 CEST 2010
*/5 * * * */usr/local/TeamTILTforZenoss/ClientManager/sh_scripts/startTTService.sh/usr/local/TeamTILTforZenoss >>
usr/local/TeamTILTforZenoss/ClientCommunication/logs/TeamTILT_ClientCommunication.log
# --------- TEAMTILT CLIENT END ---------
10. Indicate the correct Zenoss initialization scipts path (default paths are provided). A directory "eventfiles" must be created, it stores the alerts before sending.
11. The client installation is now finished.
ZENOSS CONFIGURATION
1. Go to the Zenoss web interface, we will add a new notification command:
IMPORTANT
* It is important that this command line has no carriage return in it (just do a copy&paste of the above) and that the "notification" option is checked.
* Insert the path to "eventfiles" directory as configured during the installation procedure (step 2). It must be the same for the two notification commands (mktemp -p xxx). If unsure, check in the /ClientManager/data/teamTILTclient.properties, in the 'zenoss output file path settings' for something like 'zenoss.outputfile.path=/tmp/eventfiles'. You can of course set the 'where' according to your own needs. In the example above, the notification will be triggered in case of a new event from a device in 'production' state and having a severity higher than info.
2. Click on "save" to save the modification.
3. The configuration is now complete. Go to http://www.teamtilt.net
and login using the email address (login) and the password provided during the client installation.
4. By default, alerts are sent to all contacts. If you want to modifiy this behavior, see article "Send alerts to specific contact groups".
5. Search your contact and configure a telephone number for voice calls and the SMS messages.
6. Deactivate a service on your monitored server and test if you will receive an alert on your phone. In the TeamTILT web interface, click on the « Action history » button to see a list of all alerts that were generated.
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