[99125] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using Mobile Phone email addys for monitoring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Thu Sep 6 17:28:08 2007
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0709061339020.28859-100000@samwise.w-link.net>
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 14:16:55 -0700
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sep 6, 2007, at 1:46 PM, Rick Kunkel wrote:
> Is SMTP to a mobile phone a fundamentally flawed way to do this?
Yes, IMHO - too many things to fail, including potentially your own
DCN, the SMTP gateway service from the mobile operator, et. al.
I'd strongly recommend a direct NMS-to-SMS gateway, etc., OOB. And
of course, multiple methods in event of failure of one of them.
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