TXT Message a sell phone

[Derek J. Balling]

Cell Phone != Alphanumeric Pager

Lots of cell providers simply don't provide IXO/TAP service.

And, as you point out, e-mailing to an e-mail address is all well and  
good unless your report is "Core Router Down", then you might find  
out about it, several times, after you've repaired it. :-)

You want to investigate using enterprise-level SMS services. We're in  
the process right now of doing some of that research ourselves, and  
so would be interested to hear from others.

D

On Feb 24, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Andrew Cruse wrote:

> From the FAQ: http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php? 
> faq_id=113&expand=false&showdesc=false
>
>
>  How can I have notifications sent to an alphanumeric pager?
>
> There are two ways you can do this.
> If your paging company has an email-pager gateway, you can simply  
> have Nagios send an email message to your pager address. An example  
> of this type of address might look like: pageme at somepagingcompany.com.
>
> You should note that sending notifications through email might fail  
> if SMTP or DNS services are down or if your connection to the  
> greater Internet is down. An alternative to sending pager messages  
> through an email gateway would be to hook a modem up to your  
> monitoring host and have Nagios dial out through the modem and send  
> the message using the TAP (IXO) protocol. There are several  
> programs that can do this for you on *NIX systems. Two popular ones  
> seem to be Sendpage and QuickPage.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users- 
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Joe Jackson
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:56 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] TXT Message a sell phone
>
> Is there a way to make Nagios send text messages to a cell phone?

--

Derek J. Balling
Systems Administrator
Vassar College
124 Raymond Ave
Box 13 - Computer Center 221
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604
(845) 437-7231


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