Yep, agreed in certain situations a hardware gateway is more useful. That is what I listed as item #1. A small Mikrotik Router + USB Cell Stick of your choice. make for a very inexpensive, flexible gateway. http://mum.mikrotik.com/presentations/CO10/day1/03-arnis_3g.pdf (quiet a few options for different form-factors) http://mum.mikrotik.com/presentations/US11/us11-brian.pdf Regards :) Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: Support@Snappytelecom.net
From: "Scott Fisher" <littlefishguy@gmail.com> To: "Faisal Imtiaz" <faisal@snappytelecom.net> Cc: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>, "nanog list" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2016 3:55:07 PM Subject: Re: SMS gateways
I am well aware of email-to-sms, but that is dependant on links/infrastructure that you are monitoring. (Think of it like having your Nagios system running on the same hypervisor as your other production gear. What happens if the hypervisor drops? How would you know? ) The hardware sms gateway allows for true oob notifications.
On Thursday, January 7, 2016, Faisal Imtiaz < faisal@snappytelecom.net > wrote:
There are multiple ways to skin this cat !.
No, not familiar with this product...
However..
1) You know that you can send sms messages via email to pretty much any cell phone.
2) Personal Preference, if I was doing so, I would do it with a small mikrotik router + usb cell modem, very inexpensive, especially when combined with a M2M plan.
Regards.
Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232
Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: Support@Snappytelecom.net
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From: "Scott Fisher" < littlefishguy@gmail.com > To: "John Levine" < johnl@iecc.com > Cc: "nanog list" < nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2016 3:34:42 PM Subject: Re: SMS gateways
Does anyone having experience getting this to work on US networks?
I am interested on getting this working with our Nagios notifications.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:40 PM, John Levine < johnl@iecc.com > wrote:
Thanks for those pointers. The "mega bill" problem is one I have to avoid. We used to use ISDN as backup to T1 circuits, but had to abandon that after some wayward fail-overs resulted in $5000 phone bills. I'll check the plan overage terms carefully!
Sounds like an excellent application for a $10/mo prepaid plan on something like Tracfone. If disaster strikes and you need a lot of data one month, you can add extra credit directly from the phone.
-- Scott
-- Scott