[99131] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using Mobile Phone email addys for monitoring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vince)
Thu Sep 6 18:17:53 2007
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:33:44 +0100
From: Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk>
To: matthew zeier <mrz@velvet.org>
CC: Rick Kunkel <kunkel@w-link.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <46E06D42.50409@velvet.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
matthew zeier wrote:
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> > Anyone else have any issues, past or present, with this kind of thing?
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> It takes ~ 7 minutes from the time Nagios sends an email sms to AT&T to
> the time it hits my phone. I'm using @mobile.mycingular.com because
> mmode.com stopped working (which results in at least two txt pages vs.
> the one I was used to).
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> > Is SMTP to a mobile phone a fundamentally flawed way to do this?
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> I'm beginning to think it is!
Any place I've worked thats used sms alerting has ended up using either
sms-tools (http://smstools.meinemullemaus.de/) or gnokki
(www.gnokii.org) with a bit of scripting to send the sms ourselves.
Vince
