[AusNOG] CLI SIP utility?

[Ross Wheeler]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2015, Paul S. wrote:

> Any particular reason you want the notifications over voice?
> Emails are far easier to send and are regularly used for alerts.

Yes. Because the particular individual(s) who need notified in this 
specific instance, may not regularly check email, and certainly may not 
check it in a timely manner.

If (for example) a remote transmitter site gets broken into, they may want 
an urgent response from a patrol person who WILL get a phone call 
immediately, even if they're driving around, but who WON'T get an email 
for some indeterminate time period.


sipp looks like it could do the job, but it's overkill, and the time taken 
to figure out how to make it do the job is already excessive.

sipcmd looks like it could do the job, but it's putting up a fight 
installing on a FreeBSD box.

Being constantly interrupted doesn't help a lot either.

There are quite a lot of people asking for the same thing, but so far I've 
not found anyone with a suitable answer... it seems so straightforward, 
perhaps I'm just looking for the wrong terms. Or, perhaps it's "too 
simple" so nobody ever created something, since there are all these other 
tools "that could do it" (but no adequate examples of how to, easily)

R.