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list Mark Felder · Sat, 13 Jul 2013 10:19:55 -0500 ·
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
list Ralph Mitchell · Sat, 13 Jul 2013 17:00:19 -0400 ·
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
quoted from Mark Felder


On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Mark Felder <user-db141d317836@xymon.invalid> 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

list Jeremy Laidman · Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:21:30 +1000 ·
quoted from Mark Felder
On 14 July 2013 01:19, Mark Felder <user-db141d317836@xymon.invalid> 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
list Jeremy Ruffer · Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:42:52 +0100 ·
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
quoted from Mark Felder

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

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