North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: [nanog] Re: Network Notifcation - SMS via Verizon
> The other side of this besides the delayed receiving of messages is > with monitoring you want to get the alerts even if your network is down > and unable to send via email to your pager, cellphone, etc. Having an > out of band method to get those alerts out on criticial alerts is > paramount. I've used Nagios for many years but unfortunately have never > worked with sending through Verizon. I've had decent experience using > Sprint's gateways sending to my phone with minimal delay. > Our solution, crufty as it might be, was that our monitoring server has a modem on it. As long as the pots lines are up, we just have it ring the on-call cell phone. When you see the caller ID, you know its time to get to a terminal. Usually our [email protected] would follow 10-15 seconds later. Tuc/TBOH
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