Sending a txt message as acknowledgement for event

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patrickm wrote:
> Is it possible to reply to a txt message that is sent from the nagios server as acknowledgement when an event occurs, like an unreachable server or other events?
The short answer is, yes.

The long answer is, it depends on how you sent the SMS in the first 
place. If you are using some cheapy internet-based solution, then I 
doubt they have any return path feature. If you are sending via GSM 
modems, then yes. We do this now and have been for 2 years. If you have 
a direct link into a carriers' SMSC, then it will depend on their 
solution. We are looking to move this way in the near future, and our 
carrier has a return path solution.

The guts of the solution is just code that parses the SMS back and hands 
it off to Nagios using the external command features. In our case, we 
reply/forward the entire SMS as-is back to sending device, which can 
easily parse the SMS given we know the exact format it left in anyhow. 
Plus, the same system handles other inbound and outbound SMSs with ease.


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