nagios + nextel issue

[Andrew Cruse]

nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> Craig Jackson wrote:
>> Please help troubleshoot this problem. Nagios works great. It sends
>> notifications to mycellnumber at page.nextel.com. The problem is that I
>> get 2 pages for every notification, a header and a body. No other
>> pager or email client sends me 2 pages for one. According to the
>> mail server (Exim 4.5) log, only one email is actually sent.
>> 
> 
> That's odd. I have Nextel too, and I get a ton of pages a day
> from all sort of different things.
> 
> I'm sending mine as text messages though, because I was
> having issues (not the same as yours) with sending pages to
> my phone. I switched to using the text messages
> "Twoway.mynumber at messaging.nextel.com" and haven't had a problem
> since then. 
> 
> I never get two pages for one as you are describing. I'd call
> them and ask them what's going on, or consider doing the text message
> route perhaps. 

Is it possible your alert pages are too long and are being split into to
messages?  Most carriers have a character limit on text messages and
pages.

Andrew



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