Notifications by SMS

[Matthew Joyce]

Wfiw, we use the email to sms service provided by
http://www.messagemedia.com.au/  (Australia)

It works ok, we use an alternate smtp server which isn't ours.
I'm not overly happy with using smtp-sms, there a lot that can go wrong,
much out of my control.
Message Media does provide APIs which from a very brief look will
contact the sms service via HTTP.
In my mind HTTP (via PHP) is potentially more attractive than using
SMTP.
Still, if there's still pleanty of ways this can fail too.

I'm not sure if it's because the SMTP server we use is part of a cluster
(it is), or load balancing of sms servers, but if there is a lot of
messages they don't arrive in order.

I'm considering having a GSM phone attached to the nagios servers, or a
pci card like this
http://www.amplified.com.au/GSM_Modem.aspx
I would if I could be sure linux was supported and I could craft a
wrapper.


Matthew Joyce 
02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for
Medical Research 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Jim Avery
> Sent: Saturday, 24 February 2007 9:59 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications by SMS
> 
> I use http://www.intellisms.co.uk/ .
> 
> Their options for formatting the mail for translation to SMS 
> are many and varied.  It can split long emails in to multiple 
> SMSs (you specify what the max number is you will allow).  
> SMS replys are fired back by email to the originator (in my 
> case I spoof it back to my own email).
> You can use their web admin pages to see what texts have been 
> sent to whom.  They take either pre-pay or contract payment.  
> With pre-pay, you can specify a list of emails which will get 
> notified when credit drops to a certain number of texts 
> (which you specify).  You can put an endofmessage code in the 
> email so the SMS won't include all the legal and marketing 
> junk the corporate email system appends to every email.
> 
> The feature I really like is you can set up a contact group 
> within the intellisms system, and move contacts in and out of 
> that group using the web interface.  That's handy for me as I 
> can administer the on-call rota that way without bothering to 
> connect to the corporate network.
> 
> The downside of using any of these email-SMS methods is that 
> they won't notify you when your SMTP gateway is down.  
> Ideally I would set up an alternative using POTS or whatever 
> so I could escalate via another route entirely.
> 
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