SMS Alerts, what do you use?

[Mirza Dedic]

I want to receive text version of some notifications in place (along with the standard email) for some of our systems; I already have the checks in place but what I want is them to be texted to me and not emailed. Sometimes emails get through the cracks, but I think SMS will work.

Also for a scenario where our email server does not work, say the service stops or the box becomes unresponsive this would be a 2nd way to get alerted regarding the issue.

That is the general idea of what I need SMS or an alternative way to get messages to my mobile device; and with the iPhone there is no custom email filters on messages (such as setting loud noise, etc. unless you jailbreak it and use cydia repo) but such control is there for texts.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Ashworth [mailto:jra at baylink.com]
Sent: February/17/2011 8:28 PM
To: Nagios Users List
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] SMS Alerts, what do you use?

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mirza Dedic" <mirde at oppy.com>

> I currently have Nagios running on a Ubuntu 10.04 VM on our virtual
> infrastructure, what I would like to do is enable SMS notification for
> some of the more "critical" notifications. Just wondering what you
> guys use out there and how you have it setup? Anyone share their
> experience on getting something reliable to work?

You will get different responses on this...

but using SMS for something that's *more* critical may not be your best approach, seeing as how SMS is a non-reliable transport with no way to tell (in most cases) whether the destination addressee received the message and (in some cases) even whether the network did.

It depends on what your definition of "is", er, I mean "critical" is. :-)

Cheers,
-- jra

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