Sending notifications via SMS+mobile phone

Gareth Watson GarethWatson at totemcomms.com
Wed Mar 19 14:53:54 CET 2008


Yes there is a SIM card in the terminal.  We have this on a contract that has a load of free sms messages allocated every month.

Works out very cheap indeed.

Gareth. 

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From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Josh Wells
Sent: 19 March 2008 13:15
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Sending notifications via SMS+mobile phone

This probably seems like a dumb question but does a GSM terminal like this require its own cellular account or is it just a matter of buying it and configuring it on the computer?


Josh


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From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Gareth Watson
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 5:01 AM
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Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Sending notifications via SMS+mobile phone

We use that terminal at our workplace.  I have been using SMSLink very successfully for the past 12 months.  

I did have to play with the source code to get it working just how we wanted.  However, the developer tells me that the changes I have made are now included in the new version.  I would take a look at that if you want an easy way to get this working:

http://smslink.sourceforge.net/

Once configured and installed all we needed to do was create a notification command like this:

define command{
  command_name  notify-by-sms
  command_line echo -e "$SERVICEDESC$\r$HOSTNAME$\r$SERVICESTATE$\r$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | /usr/local/bin/sendsms -d $CONTACTPAGER$ -Q -f'-' localhost 2>/dev/null }

Works a treat for us.  Plus we like the fact that we can also send SMSs to this software.  This means that, in theory at least, our engineers could acknowledge a problem or get a status report from Nagios by texting the SMS modem.  We have yet to implement this but it was a big selling point for our installation.

I hope this helps,

Gareth.

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From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Dennis Hünseler
Sent: 17 March 2008 08:02
To: Meylikhov
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Sending notifications via SMS+mobile phone


Meylikhov schrieb: 

	Hi!
	Do you use this one - Siemens TC35i Terminal -
	http://www.warburtech.com/gsm/tc35i.terminal/ ? 
	
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	From: Sander Klein [mailto:sander at pictura-dp.nl] 
	Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 1:38 PM
	To: Meylikhov
	Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
	Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Sending notifications via SMS+mobile phone
	
	Hi,
	
	I use the siemens tc35i gsm modem and think it's great. Just hook it up 
	to your COM port, install smstool (which is in debian) create the 
	configfile, make a script to send sms and go....
	
	It's really easy.
	
	Greets,
	
	Sander
	
	Meylikhov wrote:
	  

		Hello, everybody!
		
		Can anyone assist me in solving the following task: I need nagios to 
		send SMS via mobile phone connected to COM port. Are there are such 
		possibilities in nagios and are there any plugins that support sending 
		sms via mobile phone? I found only one plugin (NAGIOSMS: 
		
		    

	http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Notifications.35.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1[p_vi
	ew]=619 
	  

		)that is currently supports sending notifications via mobile phone but 
		I even can't imagine how to connect mobile phone to my Linux Debian 
		4.0 server (2.6.18-6-686). Maybe someone already has configured 
		notifications send via mobile phone and can suggest me what mobile 
		phone to buy? I also need any help (suggestions,links, documentation, 
		etc) in connecting mobile phone to my Linux Debian 4.0 server.
		
		My system:
		
		Nagios server: Linux Debian 4.0 server 2.6.18-6-686
		
		Nagios: nagios-3.0b5
		
		Nagios plugins: nagios-plugins-1.4.11
		
		NRPE: nrpe-2.10
		
		Thank you!
		
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Hey, this is the right one. You can also use the Siemens MC35 Works also great with smstool. Used it in several companies...

Regards, Dennis


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