Have recent recommendations for choosing a SMS pager/PDA/smartphone and/or phone network been covered on this list or maybe a Nagios forum?
I am sure some (many?) of you have alerts sent via SMS or email to your phone device and that you expect to have a reliable network. It would be great if we could discuss experiences. What is good, bad, and what is desired. For past 14 months, I have used a Sidekick II from T-Mobile. It has been overall reliable. I have Internet access with AOL Instant Messenger, Email with multiple accounts, simple web browser, phone messages, and I have add-on for a SSH/telnet client. I have used it to receive over 5000 SMS phone messages and over 6000 emails (most sent by nagios). I have used the Sidekick a lot in the Seattle, Washington and Fort Worth, Texas USA areas. Plus some through out Washington state, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, little in Iowa, Illinois, little in Tennessee, and little in Arkansas. It has worked fine except in some places in south/middle and northwest TX, southern UT, north NM, and north AZ. A couple weeks ago, manually checking email stopped working and numerous attempts to work with T-Mobile have failed to help (emails still work outbound and inbound on T-Mobiles own schedule). I like the sidekick's convenient keyboard. Also lately, SMS phone messages have been delayed a lot and in some cases they are never received. The sidekick service is very inexpensive. The sidekick has a very long battery life. I want to try a replacement. I need a good keyboard. I need email, SMS, and SSH client. I need its network to be available when I travel. Having X11 or VNC or remote desktop support would be great (I don't think that is possible with sidekick since it doesn't have any pointer.) What portable device do you all use to receive your nagios messages? I think a wiki page would be great to discuss this too. What is difference between http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Wiki.3.0.html and http://www.nagioscommunity.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page -- which Wiki to use? Some of my notes are here: Like the SideKick, I want a PDA that had long battery life (maybe 36 hours for me), has instant messenger, multiple email accounts, convenient size, web browser, good qwerty keyboard, SMS phone messages, and SSH client. It would be nice to also have 802.11b Wi-Fi (like iPAQ h6315) or USB but not required. I also use the camera but that is not important. The most important is to have reliable internet access throughout the United States and reliable SMS phone messages. (I rarely will use it as a real phone as I use a different cell phone for that.) SMS phone messages are becoming way to unreliable with my Sidekick (or maybe T-Mobile) so I need an alternative. I am trying to review several websites but I can't find a single webpage that lists features and shows pictures. Here are some links: Recent top 10 list http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,125397-page,1/article.html PDA / Cellphone Combinations by Wireless Provider http://palmtops.about.com/od/pdacellphonecombinations/a/Smartphones.htm Top 10 Cellphone / PDA Combinations http://palmtops.about.com/cs/productreviews/tp/top_phone_pda.htm Comparison table http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone Here is the beginning of my research: Audiovox Pocket PC I don't know if it has SSH. PPC-6600 and XV6600 keyboard looks too small but haven't tried yet BlackBerry 8700g $400 T-mobile EDGE network has instant messenger HTC TyTN Smartphone looks like SideKick a little ipaq with keyboard? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipaq iphone? I don't think it has a keyboard. Motorola Q http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Q $300 with 2 year contract (Verizon) hard to use keyboard five hours of talk time Nokia n73 or n95 Samsung SPH-i73 Samsung BlackJack or SGH-i607 SideKick 3 $300 with 2 year contract nine hours of talk time Sony Ericsson smartphone maybe p990 many features: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_P990#Reviews Treo 700p Palm $650 with 2 year contract Sprint network five hours battery life (too little) Xda IIs http://www.my-xda.com/ I also saw at Verizon store a device that looks like a Sidekick. But I don't know what it is. Jeremy C. Reed ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
