[99142] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using Mobile Phone email addys for monitoring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Harrowell)
Thu Sep 6 20:16:02 2007
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 23:30:55 +0100
From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: "Matthew Palmer" <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070906213037.GA13770@hezmatt.org>
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GSM/GPRS modems are cheap; so are SMS messages. The answer should be
clear...
On 9/6/07, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org> wrote:
>
> The only
> thing I spec for SMS notifications is a GSM modem physically connected to
> the monitoring box. There's still points of failure, but they're a lot
> fewer than SMTP to some third party.
>
> True paranoids (as we all should be) monitor their monitoring box, and it
> might be permissible to use an SMTP to SMS gateway for that monitoring, as
> long as you're monitoring all the appropriate things so that wide-scale
> failures (such as power loss) still get to you via your GSM modem (mmm,
> local UPSen).
>
> - Matt
> Professional Paranoid
>
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GSM/GPRS modems are cheap; so are SMS messages. The answer should be clear...<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Palmer</b> <<a href="mailto:mpalmer@hezmatt.org">mpalmer@hezmatt.org
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> The only<br>thing I spec for SMS notifications is a GSM modem physically connected to
<br>the monitoring box. There's still points of failure, but they're a lot<br>fewer than SMTP to some third party.<br><br>True paranoids (as we all should be) monitor their monitoring box, and it<br>might be permissible to use an SMTP to SMS gateway for that monitoring, as
<br>long as you're monitoring all the appropriate things so that wide-scale<br>failures (such as power loss) still get to you via your GSM modem (mmm,<br>local UPSen).<br><br>- Matt<br>Professional Paranoid<br></blockquote>
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