On 10/28/2010 11:16 PM, Daniel Rich wrote: > We have found SMS to be very reliable. As far as we know we haven't > lost any messages. We do have a handful of devices that we have to > notify via. e-mail, those don't lose messages but we have experienced > significant delays in getting them.
SMS is really reliable except when it isn't :) Yesterday one of my servers crashed because an sms with a low diskspace alert was an hour late. SMS provider when asked, basically just shrugged, mumbling something about "queuing delays". There is an option to get a HTTP POST whenever there is a delivery report so that you have some idea if your SMS was delivered or not, really not sure at which point in the path it gets generated, but even if it works, it makes the setup really complex, as it is no longer fire and forget: you have to have a database of every message you sent and alternative means of alerting once you haven't got a delivery receipt. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
