On Friday 23 February 2007 14:28, Derek J. Balling wrote: > Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: > > What are the recommended ways to have Nagios send SMS notifications via > > the net? (Non modem solutions please.) Free and non-free. > > Via which "net"? Do you consider a GSM-Terminal solution to be a "modem > solution"? (I wouldn't FYI, but there's similarities, sure).
What I mean by "net" is Internet. My servers are in a collocation center and I can't get a GSM modem or serially connected GSM-Terminal device in there. > We installed a Siemens TC65T in our data center and attached it to our > Nagios server. So our Nagios server has a GSM telephone number > associated with it, and it can happily issue SMS messages directly OTA > to our GSM phones. > > Like I said, it's not a "modem", but there are similarities. But also a > lot less error-prone (you'll never get notified a couple hundred times > after you bring up the mail server, that "the mail system is down", for > example). Also, since it's OTA, it's not like you have to bring POTS > service to the box. Contrarily, though, depending on your situation, > getting a GSM signal in the colo may not be the easiest thing in the world. > > Cheers, > D ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
