<div> </div> <div> in the future am thinking of a good enhancements of SMS (gnokii or smstools) to be 2 way communications, i.e. so the server can be controled via mobile phone. if a server/service goes down, you can reply to the alert SMS message with a reboot command or start an application, to fix a service as long the server reachable and the signal can get to the server. What do you think ? Thanks Dennis and Peter for you inputs ... i have downloaded smstools started with the configuration..... </div> <div>On 1/5/08, Peter Edmonds <<a href="mailto:termx23@gmail.com">termx23@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> which tools do you use to send sms through GSM modem (connected via COM) > through nagios: > smstools, kanal, or smsclient I use gnokii. Modem is a Telular GSM SX5D /etc/gnokiirc looks like this [global] port = /dev/ttyS0 model = AT initlength = default connection = serial use_locking = yes serial_baudrate = 19200 smsc_timeout = 10 [gnokiid] bindir = /usr/sbin/ [connect_script] TELEPHONE = 12345678 [disconnect_script] [logging] debug = on rlpdebug = off xdebug = off Notify command for service notifications looks like this echo -e "<$HOSTNAME$>\n$SERVICEDESC$\n$SERVICESTATE$\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$\n$LONGDATETIME$" |gnokii --sendsms $CONTACTPAGER$ >> /usr/local/groundwork/nagios/var/gnokii.log 2>&1 For host notifications this does the job echo -e "<$HOSTNAME$>\n$SERVICEDESC$\n$SERVICESTATE$\n$HOSTOUTPUT$\n$LONGDATETIME$" |gnokii --sendsms $CONTACTPAGER$ >> /usr/local/nagios/var/gnokii.log 2>&1 Peter Edmonds </blockquote></div> -- madunix