--- Shane Ronan wrote: On that same note, can someone point me in the direction of an SMS gateway service? I would like to be able to send SMS messages from my monitoring systems, but I am unsure about how to go about it. --- end of quote --- There are several ways to do this: - Open source software like Gammu (http://cihar.com/gammu/) can send SMS messages through a USB or RS232 attached mobile phone or cellular modem. - We've had good luck with the MultiTech MultiModem GPRS, model MTCBA-G-U-F2 (USB) and Multitech GPRS MTCBA-G-F4 and Wavecomm RS-232 GSM (RS-232) modems. - Many monitoring/management packages have built-in or add-on SMS sending utilities. - You may not want to rely on the cellular carrier's e-mail-to-SMS gateway, either because of connectivity problems or the cell carrier's delay/reliability problems. - There's also a kludge that's good for a "disaster notification" that simply rings a phone when something really bad happens. :-) Basically, the system uses its numeric pager/TAP software to dial through an analog modem and a POTS line and ring your phone/cell. The CallerID tells you who's calling, even there's no message. There's a KB article at the InterMapper site describing this is at... http://forums.dartware.com/viewtopic.php?t=913 Rich Brown richard.e.brown@dartware.com Dartware, LLC http://www.dartware.com 66-7 Benning Street Telephone: 603-643-9600 West Lebanon, NH 03784-3407 Fax: 603-643-2289