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Re: sms messaging without a net?
- From: Mark Radabaugh
- Date: Tue Aug 03 12:59:12 2004
Mark Radabaugh wrote:
Dan Hollis wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to send SMS messages without an internet
connection?
Having a network monitoring system send sms pages via email very
quickly runs into chicken-egg scenario. How do you email a page to
let the admins know their net has gone down. :-P
AT&T shut down their TAP dialup late last year.
The only method that comes to mind is to buy a GSM modem which has
SMS messaging capability.
Has anyone done this?
-Dan
We use a standard modem and pestered Alltel until they gave us the
secret modem->SMS gateway number.
Nagios includes /usr/local/bin/sms_client. Fairly simple to use:
Usage: sms_client -v
sms_client -d
sms_client [-q][-l loglevel]
[service:]number|name[,name|[service:]number...]
[message] ...
As long as the monitoring server and the phone lines are working it
works great.
Mark Radabaugh
Amplex
Dan Hollis wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to send SMS messages without an internet
connection?
Having a network monitoring system send sms pages via email very
quickly runs into chicken-egg scenario. How do you email a page to let
the admins know their net has gone down. :-P
AT&T shut down their TAP dialup late last year.
The only method that comes to mind is to buy a GSM modem which has SMS
messaging capability.
Has anyone done this?
-Dan
We use a standard modem and pestered Alltel until they gave us the
secret TAP gateway number.
Nagios is configured to use sms_client: http://www.smsclient.org/
Works great other than being a royal pain in the rear when a lot of
things go down and dependencies are not set up in Nagios... I'll fix
that one of these days :-)
Mark Radabaugh
Amplex
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