SMS Foxbox

[Rutger Blom]

Thank you very much for the information. In our case we only have one SMS
recipient so it should work fine.

/Rutger

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Mark Young <mark at zarzax.com> wrote:

> On Nov 5, 2010, at 4:44 AM, Rutger Blom wrote:
>
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I was wondering if any of you have experience with using the SMS Foxbox
> and Nagios? Are you satisfied with the product? Is there any other solution
> you would recommend instead?
> >
> > http://www.nagios.org/products/notification/foxbox/
> >
> > /Rutger
>
> Hi Rutger,
>
> I originally demoed the SMS FoxBox while working at Nagios Enterprises in
> 2007.  My original integration attempt was written up on the wiki
> http://wiki.nagios.org/index.php/ACME_SYSTEMS_SMSFoxBox.  The device is a
> small embedded linux server that takes a SIM card and has a external
> antenna.  *It is very important that it has cell (GSM) reception.  Also my
> knowledge of the device is now a few years old.
>
> My experience was that it worked very well.  It has the limitation that it
> can only send one message at a time (one GSM modem).  My script from the
> wiki page used the web api, where you use a web address to send the message
> body and recipient.  This was only able to handle a few requests before it
> overwhelmed the small web server.  I later created another script that
> uploaded messages to a spool directory on the device (using SCP).  This was
> able to handle a large number of messages but it takes a long time for the
> device to process messages.  I would say if you have over 20 notification
> recipients you may want to look for an alternative.  There are web services
> that handle these requests (AlarmTilt) or many people now use email
> addresses provided by cell providers that text phones (
> http://www.emailtextmessages.com/).
>
> I hope that this helps you out.  Good luck in your quest!
>
> Mark Young
>
>
>
>
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