Notifications by SMS

[Chaim Keren Tzion]

On Friday 23 February 2007 15:07, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote:
> I think this could spark an interesting discussion!

I'm going to pipe in and add what I mentioned in a previous post "vicq with 
nagios". Vicq allows sending SMS's or ICQ messages via ICQ, free of charge.
I just have had trouble getting it to work with Nagios. If we can troubleshoot 
this it would be a great free solution which can possibly be expanded for two 
way sending (responding) since ICQ obviously supports this.

Does Nagios have limitations of what type of commands it can run as 
notifications?

> Both AQL and Text Anywhere (providers I've used in the past) take only
> the subject and the body (up to the 160-character limit) as the text
> message body.
> Taking the entire e-mail including headers seems bad practice for the
> obvious reasons of message length restrictions!
>
> TextAnywhere also do some other interesting things, based upon which TA
> domain you send your e-mail to:
>
> - Take the first 11 characters of the e-mail subject as the originator
> ID (instead of your mobile number) and the first 160 characters of the
> body as the text message
> - Take the first 160 characters of the e-mail body as the text message,
> setting the originator ID to your account's default mobile number
> - Take the entire e-mail body and send as many SMSes as needed to send
> the complete message (up to 3 messages will get linked as 1 by your
> handset)
>
> If you use the HTTP gateway there are a lot more options you can do,
> including getting a delivery report back when the message has been
> delivered to the handset (obviously custom programming on your side is
> needed.)
>
> Andy.
>
> Frost, Mark {PBG} wrote:
> > 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
>
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