Re: Network Notifcation - SMS via Verizon
Do you not have the option of using a tool like 'smssend' or just ${10digits}@${carrier} emailing? -- Kristian Erik Hermansen "Know something about everything and everything about something."
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
Do you not have the option of using a tool like 'smssend' or just ${10digits}@${carrier} emailing?
Note that most such schemes may be cached for minutes/hours/days. There are no guarantees re: delivery time. There is some separate $cheme used by the "Vote now for CONTESTANT" TV-driven nonsense. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
David Lesher wrote:
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
Do you not have the option of using a tool like 'smssend' or just ${10digits}@${carrier} emailing?
Note that most such schemes may be cached for minutes/hours/days. There are no guarantees re: delivery time.
There is some separate $cheme used by the "Vote now for CONTESTANT" TV-driven nonsense.
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.
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 10digit@verizon would follow 10-15 seconds later. Tuc/TBOH
Our monitoring server lives in a physically (and geographically) separate data center. We've used the SMS Gateway services like usa.bulksms.com, but we've found that number@vtext.com is very effective and just as reliable. Matthew Evans, MCSA Alpha Theory | "the right decision, every time." -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 8:55 AM To: Jeremy T. Bouse Cc: wb8foz@nrk.com; nanog list Subject: 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 10digit@verizon would follow 10-15 seconds later. Tuc/TBOH
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