[102393] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [nanog] Re: Network Notifcation - SMS via Verizon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET)
Mon Feb 11 08:57:09 2008
From: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml@t-b-o-h.net>
To: jeremy.bouse@undergrid.net (Jeremy T. Bouse)
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:55:24 -0500 (EST)
Cc: wb8foz@nrk.com, nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
In-Reply-To: <47B04641.6010009@undergrid.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> 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
