Take the 2-minute tour ×  I have a couple of nagios servers that
currently alert me via SMS and email, but I'd like to add
outgoing calls to that. The ideal solution would have the nagios
machines call my cellphone and play an mp3/wav across the call
to let me know something is wrong. My only problem is that I'm
not sure how to go about accomplishing this.  I suspect I may
have to buy a PBX card to do it, but I was hoping that someone
here had done something similar with a regular modem and off-
the-shelf software. Any ideas or hints?  share|improve this
question Make it call your admins at 3am with modem noises.
That'll teach em to set up systems properly! –  pauska Sep 19
'12 at 6:21  8 Answers 8  up vote 12 down vote accepted
Asterisk is overkill - but would work without issue. Save some
time and get a voice capable modem and use vgetty.  Here is a
tutorial which shows an 11 line perl script for playing a
message over an outbound call:   share|improve this answer The
vgetty documentation has the missing pa