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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