Any reason the monitor can't be external, then send an SMS via email directly to the cell phone provider, rather than an alias on the down network? If it's a private network, it could do a web request every minute to a monitor. If it hasn't received a request in two minutes, send the page directly to the SMS provider. On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 02:17:45 -0700 (PDT), Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net> 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