Alert via SMS

[Bram Gillemon]

We bought the gprskit-G20 from acmesystems, it has been running for a couple of months now and its pretty stable. 

We previously ran it using a 3G usb stick but this wasn't stable (kernel crashes, usb dongle disapeared, ...) 

I'm running gnokkii on the box that connects to a mysql database.

http://eshop.acmesystems.it/?id=GPRSKIT-G20

Kr,
Bram Gillemon


On 26 Jan 2011, at 10:57, Giles Coochey wrote:

> On 26/01/2011 09:54, David Seira wrote:
>> Hi.
>> 
>> There are several ways for do it. You can use a email-to-sms gateway; there are some portal that are free. But I prefer use a 3g modem connected to the nagios server; you send the sms with the gnokii program, it's easy. The bad thing is you need to pay the 3g. The good thing for use a 3g modem is that if you lose connectivity with the gateway you even send notifications.
>> 
>> Bye.
> 3g modem is the best way as it is an Out-Of-Band method, you can probably find a provider that offers an unlimited SMS package.
> 
> I've heard endless stories of people implementing this and disabling it straight away due to too many notifications. The older cell phones (often used for on-call duty) have limited memory space for messages and deleting them can be a bit of a pain too. I would recommend that you limit SMS notifications to escalations or a sub-set of your notifications (Priority-1 systems for instance).
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