Implementation SMS Gateway to Send SMS Alerts in Nagios Core

An SMS Alerts is sms gateway to allows a computer  send or receive Short Message Service (SMS) transmissions to or from a telecommunications network. Most messages are eventually routed into the mobile phone networks. Many SMS gateways support media conversion from email and other formats.

Gammu is the name of the project as well as name of command line utility, which you can use to control your phone. It is written in C and built on top of libGammu.

In this tutorial, we will to implementation sms gateway to send sms alerts in Nagios when server is down, unreacheable, and warning.

Nagios Nagiosgraph, tools for graphing in Nagios

What is Nagios Nagiosgraph

Nagios Nagiosgraph parses output and performance data from Nagios plugins and stores the data in RRD files. Nagiosgraph creates graphs and generates HTML pages with graphic reports from the data. Like in this tutorial Nagios Core is already install and it works.

RRDtool is the OpenSource industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data. RRDtool can be easily integrated in shell scripts, perl, python, ruby, lua or tcl applications.