Ooh, telephony stuff. :) First: talk this over with your telecom people. It’s possible to do this, but you’re gonna need them to do stuff to their gear to make it work.
Second: this deals with analog serial connections for maximum compatibility. This is a case where it’s possible to do this, but this task is a LOT easier on Intel hardware. There are IP based solutions based on SMMP, but there are a lot of messy issues with the handling of that and getting branded as a SMS spammer. SMS generally needs some kind of application to manage generating the page, some application to manage SMS queuing, and some way to manage the interface to the PSTN. All are possible in Z, but see #2 note above. The tools for submitting the page and queuing the page are included in the hylafax package, and the documentation for setting it up works fine, except you don’t want to run the auto-setup script when prompted. - you want to add modems manually. You can build Asterisk from source or use the packaged one depending on how tinkery you want to be. Talk to the telco people again and get them to enable a SIP trunk port for you on their gear and get the credentials for it. Find a copy of “Trixbox without Tears” on the net, and use it to set up Asterisk using your SIP trunk credentials and call your telco buddies to prove it works. You can do this manually, but the freePBX package makes it a lot more straightforward. Now you need a package called IAXmodem. This is a software implementation of a fax modem, but is also works for SMS. Build and install as documented in the tarball. On your Asterisk implementation, create an IAX account for the number of outgoing pages you want to support simultaneously and configure IAXmodem accordingly. Last part, the sendpage utility. sendpage is in a subdirectory of the hylafax distribution. Read the readme in that dir and configure accordingly. You’ll need the phone number of your SMS provider and your organization’s credentials for this. If the stars align, you should be able to use sendpage to SMS message anyone you like. > Is there anyone who has built SMS server in Linux server running on Z/VM ? Contact me off list if you run into something you can’t solve. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
