17 Jun
2010
17 Jun
'10
11:24 a.m.
On 2010-06-16 at 23:26:30 -0700, John Todd wrote:
To those of you who may rely upon AT&T to deliver your email-to-SMS messages for monitoring: some of you may be currently out of luck.
Who uses email-to-SMS to monitor critical infrastructure? IMO, it's bad practice for your notification path to use the very path you are monitoring for problems--plus there really isn't an acknowledgement of delivery with email-to-SMS. I get more reliability out of an alpha-numeric pager and snppsend then I get with email-to-SMS--plus when SNPP fails, I can easily detect the failure (try figuring that out with email-to-SMS) and have Icinga pick up a physically attached modem and dial. -A