Thank you very much for the information. In our case we only have one SMS recipient so it should work fine.<div><br></div><div>/Rutger<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Mark Young <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@zarzax.com">mark@zarzax.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Nov 5, 2010, at 4:44 AM, Rutger Blom wrote:<br> <br> > Hello list,<br> ><br> > I was wondering if any of you have experience with using the SMS Foxbox and Nagios? Are you satisfied with the product? Is there any other solution you would recommend instead?<br> ><br> > <a href="http://www.nagios.org/products/notification/foxbox/" target="_blank">http://www.nagios.org/products/notification/foxbox/</a><br> ><br> > /Rutger<br> <br> </div></div>Hi Rutger,<br> <br> I originally demoed the SMS FoxBox while working at Nagios Enterprises in 2007. Â My original integration attempt was written up on the wiki <a href="http://wiki.nagios.org/index.php/ACME_SYSTEMS_SMSFoxBox" target="_blank">http://wiki.nagios.org/index.php/ACME_SYSTEMS_SMSFoxBox</a>. Â The device is a small embedded linux server that takes a SIM card and has a external antenna. Â *It is very important that it has cell (GSM) reception. Â Also my knowledge of the device is now a few years old.<br> <br> My experience was that it worked very well. Â It has the limitation that it can only send one message at a time (one GSM modem). Â My script from the wiki page used the web api, where you use a web address to send the message body and recipient. Â This was only able to handle a few requests before it overwhelmed the small web server. Â I later created another script that uploaded messages to a spool directory on the device (using SCP). Â This was able to handle a large number of messages but it takes a long time for the device to process messages. Â I would say if you have over 20 notification recipients you may want to look for an alternative. Â There are web services that handle these requests (AlarmTilt) or many people now use email addresses provided by cell providers that text phones (<a href="http://www.emailtextmessages.com/" target="_blank">http://www.emailtextmessages.com/</a>).<br> <br> I hope that this helps you out. Â Good luck in your quest!<br> <br> Mark Young<br> <br> <br> <br> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br> The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper<br> David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a<br> Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your<br> business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now!<br> <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev</a><br> _______________________________________________<br> Nagios-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a><br> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a><br> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue.<br> ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null<br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Rutger Blom<br>LuzernvÃ¤gen 14<br>227 38 LUND<br>Sweden<br>Tel. +46 763 46 99 44<br><a href="http://www.rutgerblom.com" target="_blank">www.rutgerblom.com</a><font color="#333333" face="proxima-nova-1, proxima-nova-2, Tahoma, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19px"><br> </span></font><div><a href="http://about.me/rutgerblom" target="_blank">about.me/rutgerblom</a></div><br> </div>