TXT Message a sell phone
jeff vier
boinger at tradingtechnologies.com
Fri Feb 24 22:35:27 CET 2006
On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 15:30 -0600, Joe Jackson wrote:
> Jeff,
> What i mean is that, Nagios will send mail to my internal Exchange
> address, however it wont send to any address outside of my internal
> domain.
your mail server has to allow relaying from your Nagios server.
>
> On 2/24/06, Joe Jackson <jdbigg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it permitted? Yes
>
> Is it configured to do so? Most likley not.
>
> I am not new to Linux however i am not that versed in it, so i
> need to know what i need to configure in this Linux box to
> make it relay through Exchange. If you guys can't tell me (do
> to rules/restrictions on this list) please tell me where i can
> find it.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
> On 2/24/06, Paul Lathrop <plathrop at squaretrade.com> wrote:
> 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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