Notifications by SMS

[Chaim Keren Tzion]

On Friday 23 February 2007 14:28, Derek J. Balling wrote:
> Chaim Keren Tzion wrote:
> > What are the recommended ways to have Nagios send SMS notifications via
> > the net? (Non modem solutions please.) Free and non-free.
>
> Via which "net"? Do you consider a GSM-Terminal solution to be a "modem
> solution"? (I wouldn't FYI, but there's similarities, sure).

What I mean by "net" is Internet.
My servers are in a collocation center and I can't get a GSM modem or serially 
connected GSM-Terminal device in there.

> We installed a Siemens TC65T in our data center and attached it to our
> Nagios server. So our Nagios server has a GSM telephone number
> associated with it, and it can happily issue SMS messages directly OTA
> to our GSM phones.
>
> Like I said, it's not a "modem", but there are similarities. But also a
> lot less error-prone (you'll never get notified a couple hundred times
> after you bring up the mail server, that "the mail system is down", for
> example). Also, since it's OTA, it's not like you have to bring POTS
> service to the box. Contrarily, though, depending on your situation,
> getting a GSM signal in the colo may not be the easiest thing in the world.
>
> Cheers,
> D

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