sms notify not working

[James]

stephen wing wrote:
> Hi 
> 	If you are using nagios to send the messages, be careful that
> sms_client has a limit of 150 characters in the text message. Depending on
> what outputs you are sending from nagios, the outputs can easily become more
> than 150 characters.
>
> Regards
> Stephen
>
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> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of James
> Sent: 06 November 2007 23:59
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] sms notify not working
>
> Hi everyone i'm using sms_client to send sms messages to a tap server 
> for sprint
>
> i can run the sms_client manually fine but i set it to a notify 
> definition and it won't execute
> nagios logs shows that it executed the notify command but it doesn't 
> actually run the sms_client daemon at all.
> In the notifications history it shows that those notify commands are 
> executed but it actually isn't being executed at all
> I can run email notify commands fine.
>
> Help please?
> TIA James
>
> Here's the notify commands i've tried :
>
> define command{
>         command_name                    notify-by-sms
>         command_line                    /usr/bin/sms_client -q 
> sprintpcs:800xxxxxxx "$HOSTNAME$ $SERVICESTATE$\r\n Info: $OUTPUT$"
> }
>
> define command{
>         command_name                    notify-by-sms-testing
>         command_line                    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "Host: 
> $HOSTNAME$ I
> nfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n" | sms_client -q sprintpcs:800xxxxxxx
> }
>
>
>
>
>
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I stripped down the notify message to just hostname and hostoutput which 
shouldn't be more than like 60-70 characters altogether i had realized i 
had run into that problem earlier and started streamlining alot of my 
plugins.
Thanks for the suggest tho.

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