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Just started working on a large data warehouse project that runs some large ETLs every night. In the event of an error I receive an email, but I was hoping to somehow create something that will automatically call me, so I don't have to wake up and check my email at 4 every morning to make sure the ETLs finished properly. I know I can setup an SMS pretty easily, but I don't think that will be enough to wake me up :)

Anyone have any experience trying to do this before?

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  • Is this on Windows? Linux? Do you have a modem available and a physical phone line?
    – Josh Budde
    Oct 14, 2009 at 18:24
  • It's on windows, and I would probably be able to setup a phone line and modem,
    – Ryan M
    Oct 14, 2009 at 20:42

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SMS seems a good mechanism for this. Can't you just set up a louder notification signal on your cellphone? ;-)

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if you are not responsible for network infrastructure and it is pretty reliable - you can use command-line based sip client to initiate a call and possibly some voice synthetizer to read messages. nagios will provide you a nice framework to orchestrate the checks.

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Have a look at:

http://www.pagerduty.com/

  • is this the sort of thing you're looking for?
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  • Basically that is what I'm looking for, but it has a lot of extra fluff I don't need. All I need is just to set it up so I will get a phone call when there is a failure. I was hoping to see if there was an easy way to implement it myself. But if not, this looks like a good option.
    – Ryan M
    Oct 14, 2009 at 20:41
  • Yes - just to say this service is currently free (from looking at the site), so no harm in trying it out...
    – Anonymous
    Oct 15, 2009 at 5:40

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