[99149] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Using Mobile Phone email addys for monitoring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason J. W. Williams)
Thu Sep 6 21:36:12 2007
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 18:04:44 -0600
In-Reply-To: <200709062211.l86MB4oe026080@parsley.amaranth.net>
From: "Jason J. W. Williams" <williamsjj@digitar.com>
To: "Daniel Senie" <dts@senie.com>, "Jared Mauch" <jared@puck.nether.net>,
"matthew zeier" <mrz@velvet.org>
Cc: "Rick Kunkel" <kunkel@w-link.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hi All,
Our experience with using the e-mail-to-SMS gateways provided by
AT&T/Cingular and T-Mobile:
AT&T: Messages come through with very little delay (even during alert
storms).
T-Mobile: 10-15 messages/hour are allowed through...then T-Mobile
refuses the IP for about an hour.
-J
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Daniel Senie
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 4:09 PM
To: Jared Mauch; matthew zeier
Cc: Rick Kunkel; nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Using Mobile Phone email addys for monitoring
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=20
> AT&T to the
> > time it hits my phone. I'm using @mobile.mycingular.com because=20
> mmode.com
> > stopped working (which results in at least two txt pages vs. the=20
> 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=20
your data center... Not always the case, unfortunately.=20
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