Notifications by SMS

[Frost, Mark {PBG}]

We do this as well (e-mail to phonenumber at provider) to receive alerts.
What's not so good about this is that most phone companies limit the
length of an SMS message.  The provider includes a lot of the e-mail
header in the SMS message which eats up a good chunk of that length.  We
find that regularly we get the subject, but little or none of the body
of the alert message.

It would be nice to be able to get just the alert without all the e-mail
header crap.  That's what makes the notion of a service that translates
the e-mail message more intelligently and sends it via SMS an intriguing
idea to us.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Steven
C. Jones
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 7:13 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications by SMS

That's basically what we do (sending messages via areacode+phonenumber @
provider.net or com,etc). We've done it via pager and cell phone (SMS)
and it's worked fine for us. Sometimes depending on the load of errors,
you may receive garbage in the text from Nagios, so be prepared - then
again we are still running nagios v. 1.4. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Morris,
Patrick
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 3:27 AM
To: Chaim Keren Tzion; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications by SMS

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf
> Of Chaim Keren Tzion
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 4:45 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Notifications by SMS
>
> What are the recommended ways to have Nagios send SMS
> notifications via the net? (Non modem solutions please.) Free
> and non-free.

It depends on your provider.  In my case, I send e-mails to an address
set up at my phone company.

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