Sending a txt message as acknowledgement for event

[patrickm]

Thanks for the response.  To send txt messages, we have Verizon, so we send to 1234567890 at vtext.com.  I hit reply on my phone and a few seconds later I received a bounceback from the mail server where Nagios is..so I think we might be in business.

What would I have to do from here?  From the looks of your e-mail, it sounds like I need to code something very detailed...

Thanks for the help!  

Patrick



On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:11:47 +1000, Az <az at whoever.org> wrote:
> 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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