TXT Message a sell phone

[Paul Lathrop]

Joe,

The problem you are having lies *outside* of Nagios. You need to 
configure the local system (where Nagios is installed) to properly send 
oubound mail through the Exchange server.

Joe Jackson wrote:
> Derek,
>   That is pretty much what i though, but i guess i have something goofed up.
> It will send mail enternal to our domain/exchange server, but nothing out
> side of our domain, (i.e. Vtext.com). Is there a way inside Nagios to tell
> it to send all out bound mail through our Exchange server?
> 
> 
> On 2/24/06, Derek J. Balling <deballing at vassar.edu> wrote:
> 
>>Well, if you're just trying to send it via e-mail, you can send it
>>like any other e-mail message. Nagios basically injects its e-mail
>>into its local MTA on that box, which is configured however you set
>>it up (and that's a little outside the scope of this list, but
>>relaying to offsite domains like Verizon should be a factory config
>>pretty much).
>>
>>cheers,
>>D
>>
>>On Feb 24, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Joe Jackson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>--
>>
>>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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