Patrick ~ I just set this up myself, so I'll share some of the details on how I got it working. First off you'll need a way for the email's to reach the nagios inbox. In our example I setup fetchmail on our CentOS box to check Exchange every 15 seconds for mail using POP3. once you have that configured and mail is going into the inbox on your linux machine for the nagios account, you'll need to configure procmail. Now if your on a redhat system (or flavor) procmail is setup by default. (Otherwise you may need to install/configure) So you'll need to setup a .procmailrc file in the nagios users home directory (or place a procmailrc file in /etc). Procmail should be setup to kick off a script (that you'll need to write) to process the incoming mail and if a problem is acknowledged, place an acknowledgment in the nagios.cmd file. Like I said, the first process in fixing this puzzle is getting mail to the nagios server from an SMS device. Once there it should be pretty straight forward. Let me know if this makes sense. Josh <div>On 2/21/07, patrickm <<a href="mailto:patrickm@garlic.com">patrickm@garlic.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Thanks for the response. To send txt messages, we have Verizon, so we send to <a href="mailto:1234567890@vtext.com">1234567890@vtext.com</a>. I hit reply on my phone and a few seconds later I received a bounceback from the mail server where Nagios is..so I think we might be in business. What would I have to do from here? From the looks of your e-mail, it sounds like I need to code something very detailed... Thanks for the help! Patrick On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:11:47 +1000, Az < <a href="mailto:az@whoever.org">az@whoever.org</a>> wrote: > patrickm wrote: >> Is it possible to reply to a txt message that is sent from the nagios > server as acknowledgement when an event occurs, like an unreachable server > or other events? > The short answer is, yes. > > The long answer is, it depends on how you sent the SMS in the first > place. If you are using some cheapy internet-based solution, then I > doubt they have any return path feature. If you are sending via GSM > modems, then yes. We do this now and have been for 2 years. If you have > a direct link into a carriers' SMSC, then it will depend on their > solution. We are looking to move this way in the near future, and our > carrier has a return path solution. > > The guts of the solution is just code that parses the SMS back and hands > it off to Nagios using the external command features. In our case, we > reply/forward the entire SMS as-is back to sending device, which can > easily parse the SMS given we know the exact format it left in anyhow. > Plus, the same system handles other inbound and outbound SMSs with ease. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash <a href="http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV">http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV </a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users"> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div>