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Re: sms messaging without a net?

  • From: Stephen J. Wilcox
  • Date: Tue Aug 03 13:16:57 2004 
One thing to watch.. these can be temperamental and liable to be disconnected 
without warning (or perhaps thats just here in the uk!)

If you set this up as an emergency emergency system and it doesnt get used 
regualrly you might not realise the service has gone away...

Steve

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Patrick Muldoon wrote:

> 
> On Tuesday 03 August 2004 05:17 am, 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 SNPP directly to our Nextel phones.  AFAIK nextel has an SNPP dialup at 
> NPA-NXX-NOTE where the NPA-NXX is the same as your phone number.  We have 
> nagios due this via qpage, works like a charm. 
> 
> -Patrick 
> 
>