[127214] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T's blue network SMS<->SMTP off the air
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron C. de Bruyn)
Thu Jun 17 16:54:21 2010
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:24:45 -0700
From: "Aaron C. de Bruyn" <aaron@heyaaron.com>
To: John Todd <jtodd@loligo.com>
In-Reply-To: <7A699AC1-EF4E-4731-8D81-FAEDC3CE1C01@loligo.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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
