Optus here will provide you with software for free and a $150 connection charge that gives you an SMS gateway of your own you needed a modem and line for it if I remember right. It then just costs for each message delivered. You can then send email to it or I think some of the monitoring tools like Tivoli and Openview have a native type interface to it for ending messages. So you might just like to get in touch with your mobile carrier
One great feature for this was the ability to build groups so you could send messages to multiple phones, good for escalation stuff. Cheers -- ================================================= Peter McLarty E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Consultant WWW: http://www.mincom.com APAC Technical Services Phone: +61 (0)7 3303 3461 Brisbane, Australia Mobile: +61 (0)402 094 238 Facsimile: +61 (0)7 3303 3048 ================================================= A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot (1826-1877 British Economist) ================================================= Mincom "The People, The Experience, The Vision" ================================================= This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender. The contents of this e-mail are the opinion of the writer only and are not endorsed by the Mincom Group of companies unless expressly stated otherwise. "Mark Leith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14-05-2002 12:48 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Fax to: Subject: RE: Telephone Alerts Simon, Working with a tools company that provides a monitoring tool for Oracle - we have had a lot of call for sending alerts to SMS. We've done a fair bit of testing of various SMS providers in the UK so that we can try to recommend a valid solution to our customers - that is able to alert a user with a consistently good response time. The "norm" is to use an "SMS gateway", where you send a standard email to a an SMS Gateway provider - who then forward that email in SMS form to your mobile phone. We've tried various people such as Genie (BT's) now called mmo2, http://www.uboot.com, http://www.iobox.com etc. etc. all of which have had poor response times at various times in the day due to user traffic.. There is also the possibility of getting tools that people have pre-built to send SMS from a desktop - or server.. Many of these are pretty good in GUI form, but when it comes to command line support, they are usually very lacking to none - and let's face it if we wanted to use it, or if you wanted to call it from a shell type script you *need* command line support.. And if there is command line support - most of the time these are made by people in other countries, and don't seem to support our UK service providers such as Orange, One-2-One, and to a slightly lesser extent Vodafone. If we are asked to provide SMS alerts for our tools, we now point our customers to a company called Textforce (http://www.textforce.net) which is actually supposed to be a targeted marketing type site for sending marketing SMS messages. It's a "pay per message" provider - with each SMS being around 7-8 pence.. The only reason we actually recommend to our customers that they use this site - is that throughout our entire testing, this site provided response times (from the time the email was sent, to the time the SMS was received) of between 30 seconds - 4 minutes consistently! Many of the other providers, such as genie, or uboot et al have greatly differing response times - from 20 seconds right up to 14 hours! I'd still be interested though if anybody has any experience with server based tools that are available (for things such as Sun, HP, AIX, NT/2000) that do have command line support, and also support the major UK providers.. HTH Mark =================================================== Mark Leith | T: +44 (0)1905 330 281 Sales & Marketing | F: +44 (0)870 127 5283 Cool Tools UK Ltd | E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================== http://www.cool-tools.co.uk Maximising throughput & performance -----Original Message----- Gorbatchev Sent: 13 May 2002 14:48 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Some mobile network providers make use of email gateway for sms. In that case you have some email address which is redirected by your provider to your phone. Alexandre ----- Original Message ----- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 3:03 PM We have some UNIX batch processes that send us e-mails when they have finished. Does anyone have any experience of sending a SMS message to a mobile phone? 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