Friday fun at work…
The other day one of our servers went down, but not all the way down so the monitoring didn’t catch it, plus the monitoring thing only emails me. I wanted to make it better and have it call me by phone. But how do I do that? Some simple google searching didn’t turn up much… then I got an idea..
On a linux system you can just type or send it the command “eject” and the cd tray will open. Also our phones can be set to autodial a number with the push of a single button. Zip tie the phone in front of a server in the office and write a little program that detects if the web site is up. If it is not, eject the cd tray, which hits a button on the phone and gives me a call.
Using my google voice account I can have it ring my work, home and cell phone all at the same time. If I don’t pick up, it goes to voice mail, and google alerts me by email to the new voicemail.
I can’t wait for the day my server room calls me at 3am.
-tim
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