[99141] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using Mobile Phone email addys for monitoring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Senie)
Thu Sep 6 19:49:50 2007
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:08:39 -0400
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>, matthew zeier <mrz@velvet.org>
From: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
Cc: Rick Kunkel <kunkel@w-link.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070906212901.GA4453@puck.nether.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 05:29 PM 9/6/2007, Jared Mauch wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 02:12:34PM -0700, matthew zeier wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Anyone else have any issues, past or present, with this kind of thing?
> >
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > > Is SMTP to a mobile phone a fundamentally flawed way to do this?
> >
> > I'm beginning to think it is!
>
> Some mobile phones you can talk to via AT commandset, either
>via USB cable or something else. (eg: I have used a Nokia 6230 with usb
>cable.. you can also use bluetooth). If you pay $5 or whatnot for unlimited
>SMS on a el-cheapo plan, it might work better than using the SMTP gateway
>(when tied to Nagios, etc..) as you can send SMS messages with the AT
>commandset.
Assuming, for the moment, that there's a cell signal available in
your data center... Not always the case, unfortunately.
