SMS Foxbox

[Duncan Berriman]

Just a note about volume, that is standard for any sim based device as it is
in effect the same as sending them via a phone and each message takes a few
seconds to send. You could set up a bank of gsm modems like the maestro eco
100 with software of your choice to get round this (even your own software
as it is pretty easy to  do).

As Mark points out an external gateway is a good alternative (like aql.com,
clickatell), perhaps using that for most messages and using the fox box for
messages when your internet connectivity fails.

Duncan

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Young [mailto:mark at zarzax.com] 
Sent: 10 November 2010 03:08
To: Nagios Users List
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] SMS Foxbox

On Nov 5, 2010, at 4:44 AM, Rutger Blom wrote:

> Hello list,
> 
> I was wondering if any of you have experience with using the SMS Foxbox
and Nagios? Are you satisfied with the product? Is there any other solution
you would recommend instead?
> 
> http://www.nagios.org/products/notification/foxbox/
> 
> /Rutger

Hi Rutger,

I originally demoed the SMS FoxBox while working at Nagios Enterprises in
2007.  My original integration attempt was written up on the wiki
http://wiki.nagios.org/index.php/ACME_SYSTEMS_SMSFoxBox.  The device is a
small embedded linux server that takes a SIM card and has a external
antenna.  *It is very important that it has cell (GSM) reception.  Also my
knowledge of the device is now a few years old.

My experience was that it worked very well.  It has the limitation that it
can only send one message at a time (one GSM modem).  My script from the
wiki page used the web api, where you use a web address to send the message
body and recipient.  This was only able to handle a few requests before it
overwhelmed the small web server.  I later created another script that
uploaded messages to a spool directory on the device (using SCP).  This was
able to handle a large number of messages but it takes a long time for the
device to process messages.  I would say if you have over 20 notification
recipients you may want to look for an alternative.  There are web services
that handle these requests (AlarmTilt) or many people now use email
addresses provided by cell providers that text phones
(http://www.emailtextmessages.com/).

I hope that this helps you out.  Good luck in your quest!

Mark Young



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