[186873] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SMS gateways
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher)
Thu Jan 7 16:44:38 2016
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In-Reply-To: <58941393-7BAD-4885-9CAD-003E720D3AA8@dino.hostasaurus.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 16:44:35 -0500
From: Scott Fisher <littlefishguy@gmail.com>
To: David Hubbard <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I emailed smsfoxbox support asking about US network support. I am
hoping to hear back soon and I will let you all know the answer.
Thanks,
Scott
On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 4:40 PM, David Hubbard
<dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com> wrote:
> Scott, I was interested in that as well, it was in my original post. I=
=E2=80=99m considering that and the SMSEagle; both are from Europe. I can=
=E2=80=99t find too much on them from a real world war stories perspective,=
but there has been mention of the FoxBox on nanog in years past, so there =
are some users out there.
>
> I am not going the Microtik+cell modem route that Faisal mentioned in his=
reply post because the intent is to tie the SMS alerting into other system=
s using some form of API, and both FoxBox and SMSEagle make that incredibly=
easy by having a simple http interface for sending texts, or a full API if=
you need to do two way. The nagios plugin (and Zabbix too) are super simp=
le since it=E2=80=99s just HTTP POST to send the alerts.
>
> FoxBox claims it will work on Verizon networks because of the 3G support,=
but that doesn=E2=80=99t leave me with a comfortable feeling, so if we buy=
in, we=E2=80=99d probably get accounts from a GSM carrier for it, although=
I can=E2=80=99t find whether or not AT&T, etc. offer machine accounts, and=
I would not want to pay $50/mo per device just to send random texts.
>
> I did get an off list reply from someone who let me know that our existin=
g OpenGear devices (cell+ethernet console servers that run linux) have the =
ability to send SMS using a utility already present in the OS install. Sin=
ce we already have those in every location we=E2=80=99d also be putting an =
SMS gateway, I=E2=80=99m going to investigate if we could put a cgi script =
or something similar on them to accomplish the same goal with no additional=
equipment.
>
> David
>
>
>
>
> On 1/7/16, 3:34 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Scott Fisher" <nanog-bounces@nano=
g.org on behalf of littlefishguy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Does anyone having experience getting this to work on US networks?
>>
>>http://www.smsfoxbox.it/en/foxbox-lx800-gateway-100.html/
>>
>>I am interested on getting this working with our Nagios notifications.
>>
>>On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:40 PM, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>>>>Thanks for those pointers. The "mega bill" problem is one I have to avo=
id. We used to use ISDN as backup to T1 circuits,
>>>>but had to abandon that after some wayward fail-overs resulted in $5000=
phone bills. I'll check the plan overage terms
>>>>carefully!
>>>
>>> Sounds like an excellent application for a $10/mo prepaid plan on
>>> something like Tracfone. If disaster strikes and you need a lot of
>>> data one month, you can add extra credit directly from the phone.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>Scott
--=20
Scott
