Anyone alerting clients in realtime (not email) ?

[hortonew]

It's not the best implementation, but we're using netsend to alert windows xp clients of new alerts through custom scripts. We'd really like a better solution in a non-email environment. If it comes down to it, I was going to build a custom python server/client infrastructure, but if there is something better out there that would be easier/better, it'd be nice to compare.

What is everyone else doing for their alerts?

[dwaddle]

This is just opinion, but some things to consider - all of which are simple to do via script, and have much of the existing plumbing already in place.

1. Pagerduty (www.pagerduty.com) - nag them by phone / email / text message
2. Twitter - interested parties follow @mysplunkalerts
3. An IRC / Jabber / favorite corporate IM bot
4. Use wifi rabbits! http://splunk-base.splunk.com/apps/22392/audible-alerts-using-nabaztagtag-wifi-rabbit

We are using Pagerduty, but any of the above should work more than great.

[hortonew]

Thanks, however most of these require internet connectivity. We may be able to do the IRC/IM idea though. I forgot to mention that we don't have internet connectivity on these machines.

[rapmancz]

how did you solve it? I need something similar with android notification without internet