[103876] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Shoemaker)
Wed Apr 16 13:47:19 2008
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:33:40 -0400
From: Patrick Shoemaker <shoemakerp@vectordatasystems.com>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <48063098.2050500@everydns.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
My solution is to use a modem / POTS line hanging off the nagios box
along with the qpage daemon to send alerts out through a TAP gateway. If
you need the specs and 800 number for Verizon's TAP gateway I can send
it offlist.
http://www.dynowski.com/blog/2006/05/19/using-nagios-with-quickpage-a-sms-tap-gateway/
This is important not only to avoid the inconsistency of the vtext
email-sms gateway but to get an alert out in case of a major network
disruption that breaks email functionality.
Patrick Shoemaker
President, Vector Data Systems LLC
shoemakerp@vectordatasystems.com
office: (301) 358-1690 x36
mobile: (410) 991-5791
http://www.vectordatasystems.com
David Ulevitch wrote:
>
> We've noticed that 1234567890@vtext.com is no longer a very reliable
> form of delivery for alerts from Nagios, et al. It seems as our volume
> of alerts has risen, our delivery rate has dropped precipitously.
>
> We don't expect much trying to actually reach a postmaster for vtext.com
> so I thought the better question would be to ask what the current best
> practice is to get SMS alerts out?
>
> Back in the day, I remember a company I worked for had something called
> a TAP gateway. Is that still a good route? I've also been told to
> check out an SMS gateway/api service called clickatell.com -- anyone
> using them to delivering timely notifications?
>
> Is the best thing to do to try and get a programmable cellphone in a
> datacenter?
>
> What else are operators doing to get the pages out when things go wonky?
>
> -David
>
