SMS notifications to a cell phone

[Tom Brown]

> I am in the process of setting up nagios for monitoring key services in 
> our network setup. I have already tested and used the email method of 
> sending notifications using Sendmail as my relay host. I would be 
> grateful if I get some pointers for sending notifications using SMS to a 
> cell number, in case of service failures and recoveries. I went through 
> the nagios docs. They have mentioned  quite a few options for using SMS 
> as a notification method. But it seems that one needs to subscribe to 
> the services of a service provider to use any of those options. And the 
> service provider should be providing services in your country/location. 
> Is it possible to use this notification without subscribing to any 
> specific paid service ?

we send pages (no sms) using a modem on the nagios box and then this 
routes to the pager supplier - Relying on email or email-to-sms gateway 
is dangerous as what happens if all connectivity fails - your alerts do 
not get through.

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