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Hi All, Our experience with using the e-mail-to-SMS gateways provided by AT&T/Cingular and T-Mobile: AT&T: Messages come through with very little delay (even during alert storms). T-Mobile: 10-15 messages/hour are allowed through...then T-Mobile refuses the IP for about an hour. -J -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Senie Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 4:09 PM To: Jared Mauch; matthew zeier Cc: Rick Kunkel; [email protected] Subject: Re: Using Mobile Phone email addys for monitoring At 05:29 PM 9/6/2007, Jared Mauch wrote: >On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 02:12:34PM -0700, matthew zeier wrote: > > > > > > > > > Anyone else have any issues, past or present, with this kind of thing? > > > > > > It takes ~ 7 minutes from the time Nagios sends an email sms to > AT&T to the > > time it hits my phone. I'm using @mobile.mycingular.com because > mmode.com > > stopped working (which results in at least two txt pages vs. the > one I was > > used to). > > > > > Is SMTP to a mobile phone a fundamentally flawed way to do this? > > > > I'm beginning to think it is! > > Some mobile phones you can talk to via AT commandset, either >via USB cable or something else. (eg: I have used a Nokia 6230 with usb >cable.. you can also use bluetooth). If you pay $5 or whatnot for unlimited >SMS on a el-cheapo plan, it might work better than using the SMTP gateway >(when tied to Nagios, etc..) as you can send SMS messages with the AT >commandset. Assuming, for the moment, that there's a cell signal available in your data center... Not always the case, unfortunately. !SIG:46e0923b62578058632379!
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