TXT Message a sell phone

[Joe Jackson]

Derek,
  Thanks for your comments. I think you pretty much understand what I am
trying to do, but just to clarify; I would like to be able to send messages
to cell phones..Right, well our corporate cell carrier is Virizon, if you
don't already know, you can send an SMS text message to a Verizon cell phone
by sending an SMTP e-mail to the phone number like this: (cell
Phone-Number)@vtext.com, now is there a way to make Nagios send mail to that
number? I noticed that there is no where in Nagios (unless i missed it some
where) to setup SMTP gateway information, so sending e-mail to outside
e-mail addresses isn't possible, please correct if i am wrong.

Thanks,
Joe


On 2/24/06, Derek J. Balling <deballing at vassar.edu> wrote:
>
> Cell Phone != Alphanumeric Pager
>
> Lots of cell providers simply don't provide IXO/TAP service.
>
> And, as you point out, e-mailing to an e-mail address is all well and
> good unless your report is "Core Router Down", then you might find
> out about it, several times, after you've repaired it. :-)
>
> You want to investigate using enterprise-level SMS services. We're in
> the process right now of doing some of that research ourselves, and
> so would be interested to hear from others.
>
> D
>
> On Feb 24, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Andrew Cruse wrote:
>
> > From the FAQ: http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?
> > faq_id=113&expand=false&showdesc=false
> >
> >
> >  How can I have notifications sent to an alphanumeric pager?
> >
> > There are two ways you can do this.
> > If your paging company has an email-pager gateway, you can simply
> > have Nagios send an email message to your pager address. An example
> > of this type of address might look like: pageme at somepagingcompany.com.
> >
> > You should note that sending notifications through email might fail
> > if SMTP or DNS services are down or if your connection to the
> > greater Internet is down. An alternative to sending pager messages
> > through an email gateway would be to hook a modem up to your
> > monitoring host and have Nagios dial out through the modem and send
> > the message using the TAP (IXO) protocol. There are several
> > programs that can do this for you on *NIX systems. Two popular ones
> > seem to be Sendpage and QuickPage.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Joe Jackson
> > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:56 PM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] TXT Message a sell phone
> >
> > Is there a way to make Nagios send text messages to a cell phone?
>
> --
>
> Derek J. Balling
> Systems Administrator
> Vassar College
> 124 Raymond Ave
> Box 13 - Computer Center 221
> Poughkeepsie, NY 12604
> (845) 437-7231
>
>
>
>
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