Can I connect my SMS Gateway to Nagios or Icinga 1?

You can of course use your SMS Gateway to send alarms from Nagios or Icinga 1 via SMS.

ê It is recommended to create a new user for the script usage. The script uses the HTTP-API of the SMS Gateway.

1 Download and configure the necessary script

For this purpose, you first need the script sendsms.sh. Download it and place it on your Nagios server in the /usr/local/bin/ directory.

Create a file "config" in the directory /usr/local/bin/. This file contains the configuration for the script.

username=<myuser>

password=<mypassword>

host=<IP Address of the SMS Gateways>

#mode=<All modes can be seen here>

#insecuressl=true

#proxy=[protocol://][user:password@]proxyhost[:port]

2 Configure Nagios

In this step commands must now be configured for the SMS configuration in Nagios. Corresponding contacts must also be created.

1 Example: Definition for SMS notifications in /etc/nagios3/commands.cfg

define command

{

command_name notify-host-by-sms

command_line /usr/local/bin/sendsms.sh $CONTACTPAGER$ "$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ - Host $HOSTALIAS$ is $HOSTSTATE$ since $SHORTDATETIME$ info: $HOSTOUTPUT$"

}

define command

{

command_name notify-service-by-sms

command_line /usr/local/bin/sendsms.sh $CONTACTPAGER$ "$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ - $SERVICEDESC$ on $HOSTNAME$ state: $SERVICESTATE$ since $SHORTDATETIME$ info: $SERVICEOUTPUT$"

}

2 Example: Definition for a contact in /etc/nagios3/contacts.cfg

define contact

{

contact_name Max_Muster

alias Max Muster

host_notification_period 24x7

service_notification_period 24x7

host_notification_options d,u,r

service_notification_options u,c,r

pager 00491701234567

host_notification_commands notify-host-by-sms

service_notification_commands notify-service-by-sms

}