The Guru College
Setting Up An Analog Modem For Nagios Alerts, Part 2
In the last post on this topic, we walked through setting up a modem and a phone line for use in a Linux server. I’m using RHEL/CentOS as my Linux platform, so there may need to be some tweaks for getting this working in other distributions. Today, we’re going to talk about setting up qpage. qpage is no longer under active development, but the most recent version (3.3), works perfectly with modern kernels and modem hardware.
Head over to the download page and grab a copy of the software. You will need to make sure you have developers tools installed on your system to build qpage. On RHEL the following command is sufficient:
sudo yum groupinstall "Developer tools"
``In the last post on this topic, we walked through setting up a modem and a phone line for use in a Linux server. I’m using RHEL/CentOS as my Linux platform, so there may need to be some tweaks for getting this working in other distributions. Today, we’re going to talk about setting up qpage. qpage is no longer under active development, but the most recent version (3.3), works perfectly with modern kernels and modem hardware.
Head over to the download page and grab a copy of the software. You will need to make sure you have developers tools installed on your system to build qpage. On RHEL the following command is sufficient:
sudo yum groupinstall "Developer tools"
``
There is a simple configuration file in ```In the last post on this topic, we walked through setting up a modem and a phone line for use in a Linux server. I’m using RHEL/CentOS as my Linux platform, so there may need to be some tweaks for getting this working in other distributions. Today, we’re going to talk about setting up qpage. qpage is no longer under active development, but the most recent version (3.3), works perfectly with modern kernels and modem hardware.
Head over to the download page and grab a copy of the software. You will need to make sure you have developers tools installed on your system to build qpage. On RHEL the following command is sufficient:
sudo yum groupinstall "Developer tools"
``In the last post on this topic, we walked through setting up a modem and a phone line for use in a Linux server. I’m using RHEL/CentOS as my Linux platform, so there may need to be some tweaks for getting this working in other distributions. Today, we’re going to talk about setting up qpage. qpage is no longer under active development, but the most recent version (3.3), works perfectly with modern kernels and modem hardware.
Head over to the download page and grab a copy of the software. You will need to make sure you have developers tools installed on your system to build qpage. On RHEL the following command is sufficient:
sudo yum groupinstall "Developer tools"
``
There is a simple configuration file in``. You will need to set up the modem device, the providers and the users in this file. Once it's setup, test it by starting up qpage in it's deamon mode (and turn debugging on):
./qpage -q 10 -dand then issuing pages from a separate session and using the
qpagebinary. You can even use the
qpage` binary from another system if you don’t have TCP port 444 firewalled.
Finally, you will also need an init script so you can set the SNPP qpage daemon to run at boot time. Here’s mine:
````In the last post on this topic, we walked through setting up a modem and a phone line for use in a Linux server. I’m using RHEL/CentOS as my Linux platform, so there may need to be some tweaks for getting this working in other distributions. Today, we’re going to talk about setting up qpage. qpage is no longer under active development, but the most recent version (3.3), works perfectly with modern kernels and modem hardware.
Head over to the download page and grab a copy of the software. You will need to make sure you have developers tools installed on your system to build qpage. On RHEL the following command is sufficient:
sudo yum groupinstall "Developer tools"
``In the last post on this topic, we walked through setting up a modem and a phone line for use in a Linux server. I’m using RHEL/CentOS as my Linux platform, so there may need to be some tweaks for getting this working in other distributions. Today, we’re going to talk about setting up qpage. qpage is no longer under active development, but the most recent version (3.3), works perfectly with modern kernels and modem hardware.
Head over to the download page and grab a copy of the software. You will need to make sure you have developers tools installed on your system to build qpage. On RHEL the following command is sufficient:
sudo yum groupinstall "Developer tools"
``
There is a simple configuration file in ```In the last post on this topic, we walked through setting up a modem and a phone line for use in a Linux server. I’m using RHEL/CentOS as my Linux platform, so there may need to be some tweaks for getting this working in other distributions. Today, we’re going to talk about setting up qpage. qpage is no longer under active development, but the most recent version (3.3), works perfectly with modern kernels and modem hardware.
Head over to the download page and grab a copy of the software. You will need to make sure you have developers tools installed on your system to build qpage. On RHEL the following command is sufficient:
sudo yum groupinstall "Developer tools"
``In the last post on this topic, we walked through setting up a modem and a phone line for use in a Linux server. I’m using RHEL/CentOS as my Linux platform, so there may need to be some tweaks for getting this working in other distributions. Today, we’re going to talk about setting up qpage. qpage is no longer under active development, but the most recent version (3.3), works perfectly with modern kernels and modem hardware.
Head over to the download page and grab a copy of the software. You will need to make sure you have developers tools installed on your system to build qpage. On RHEL the following command is sufficient:
sudo yum groupinstall "Developer tools"
``
There is a simple configuration file in``. You will need to set up the modem device, the providers and the users in this file. Once it's setup, test it by starting up qpage in it's deamon mode (and turn debugging on):
./qpage -q 10 -dand then issuing pages from a separate session and using the
qpagebinary. You can even use the
qpage` binary from another system if you don’t have TCP port 444 firewalled.
Finally, you will also need an init script so you can set the SNPP qpage daemon to run at boot time. Here’s mine:
````
In the third and final article on this, I’ll talk about setting up nagios alerts to send pages.