[99146] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using Mobile Phone email addys for monitoring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Butterworth)
Thu Sep  6 20:56:45 2007
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:22:35 +0100 (BST)
From: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> > It's more effective to spend the money on SMS messages. Mobile
> > providers are forced to use very aggressive anti spam measures, which
> > can add significant delays in message delivery.
> 
> Recommendations on software and modems?
Easy enough to build, here's one I made earlier
http://www.bogons.net/pics/x1gsm.jpg
ebay/old Sun X1, serial gsm modem, qpage = OOB alarms
Sun X1s are cheap, low power and have good management already
so you can throw them in remote places
brandon