SMS notifications to a cell phone

[Hari Sekhon]

well, you could just use gnokii or something like that and have a mobile 
phone connected directly to the nagios server, although I haven't tried 
this myself.

it does mean that there is a completely separate route for gettng alerts.

-h

Hari Sekhon



Tom Brown wrote:
>> I am in the process of setting up nagios for monitoring key services in 
>> our network setup. I have already tested and used the email method of 
>> sending notifications using Sendmail as my relay host. I would be 
>> grateful if I get some pointers for sending notifications using SMS to a 
>> cell number, in case of service failures and recoveries. I went through 
>> the nagios docs. They have mentioned  quite a few options for using SMS 
>> as a notification method. But it seems that one needs to subscribe to 
>> the services of a service provider to use any of those options. And the 
>> service provider should be providing services in your country/location. 
>> Is it possible to use this notification without subscribing to any 
>> specific paid service ?
>>     
>
> we send pages (no sms) using a modem on the nagios box and then this 
> routes to the pager supplier - Relying on email or email-to-sms gateway 
> is dangerous as what happens if all connectivity fails - your alerts do 
> not get through.
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