Re: [Nagios-users] SMS Foxbox
Title: Untitled Document Am 10.11.2010 10:09, schrieb Rutger Blom: Thank you very much for the information. In our case we only have one SMS recipient so it should work fine. Another option is to use a GSM modem (or old cellphone with serial cable) and the GPLed software "SMS server tools" ( http://smstools3.kekekasvi.com/ ) which gives you a nice SMS daemon. You can send messages then by dropping them in a spool directory. The message format is simple, containing phone number and text in a fixed format. This can be eaysily generated by a script you run when needing an alert. We found it quite easy o setup, only trick is to use a phone or modem that is well supported. I can give some details on request. Best regards, Jakob Curdes -- Jakob Curdes Anschrift: iS information systems oHG Postfach 3011 26020 Oldenburg Tel.: (0)441 - 84 53 1 Fax: (0)441 - 88 59 378 Sitz: Donnerschweer Str. 89-91 D 26123 Oldenburg Web: www.info-systems.de Firmierung und Handelsregisterangaben finden Sie unter diesem Link: Firmendaten. -- The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book Blueprint to a Billion shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev___ 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
Re: [Nagios-users] SMS Foxbox
Thank you very much for the information. In our case we only have one SMS recipient so it should work fine. /Rutger On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Mark Young m...@zarzax.com wrote: On Nov 5, 2010, at 4:44 AM, Rutger Blom wrote: Hello list, I was wondering if any of you have experience with using the SMS Foxbox and Nagios? Are you satisfied with the product? Is there any other solution you would recommend instead? http://www.nagios.org/products/notification/foxbox/ /Rutger Hi Rutger, I originally demoed the SMS FoxBox while working at Nagios Enterprises in 2007. My original integration attempt was written up on the wiki http://wiki.nagios.org/index.php/ACME_SYSTEMS_SMSFoxBox. The device is a small embedded linux server that takes a SIM card and has a external antenna. *It is very important that it has cell (GSM) reception. Also my knowledge of the device is now a few years old. My experience was that it worked very well. It has the limitation that it can only send one message at a time (one GSM modem). My script from the wiki page used the web api, where you use a web address to send the message body and recipient. This was only able to handle a few requests before it overwhelmed the small web server. I later created another script that uploaded messages to a spool directory on the device (using SCP). This was able to handle a large number of messages but it takes a long time for the device to process messages. I would say if you have over 20 notification recipients you may want to look for an alternative. There are web services that handle these requests (AlarmTilt) or many people now use email addresses provided by cell providers that text phones ( http://www.emailtextmessages.com/). I hope that this helps you out. Good luck in your quest! Mark Young -- The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book Blueprint to a Billion shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev ___ 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 -- Rutger Blom Luzernvägen 14 227 38 LUND Sweden Tel. +46 763 46 99 44 www.rutgerblom.com about.me/rutgerblom -- The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book Blueprint to a Billion shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev___ 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
Re: [Nagios-users] SMS Foxbox
Just a note about volume, that is standard for any sim based device as it is in effect the same as sending them via a phone and each message takes a few seconds to send. You could set up a bank of gsm modems like the maestro eco 100 with software of your choice to get round this (even your own software as it is pretty easy to do). As Mark points out an external gateway is a good alternative (like aql.com, clickatell), perhaps using that for most messages and using the fox box for messages when your internet connectivity fails. Duncan -Original Message- From: Mark Young [mailto:m...@zarzax.com] Sent: 10 November 2010 03:08 To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] SMS Foxbox On Nov 5, 2010, at 4:44 AM, Rutger Blom wrote: Hello list, I was wondering if any of you have experience with using the SMS Foxbox and Nagios? Are you satisfied with the product? Is there any other solution you would recommend instead? http://www.nagios.org/products/notification/foxbox/ /Rutger Hi Rutger, I originally demoed the SMS FoxBox while working at Nagios Enterprises in 2007. My original integration attempt was written up on the wiki http://wiki.nagios.org/index.php/ACME_SYSTEMS_SMSFoxBox. The device is a small embedded linux server that takes a SIM card and has a external antenna. *It is very important that it has cell (GSM) reception. Also my knowledge of the device is now a few years old. My experience was that it worked very well. It has the limitation that it can only send one message at a time (one GSM modem). My script from the wiki page used the web api, where you use a web address to send the message body and recipient. This was only able to handle a few requests before it overwhelmed the small web server. I later created another script that uploaded messages to a spool directory on the device (using SCP). This was able to handle a large number of messages but it takes a long time for the device to process messages. I would say if you have over 20 notification recipients you may want to look for an alternative. There are web services that handle these requests (AlarmTilt) or many people now use email addresses provided by cell providers that text phones (http://www.emailtextmessages.com/). I hope that this helps you out. Good luck in your quest! Mark Young -- The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book Blueprint to a Billion shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev ___ 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book Blueprint to a Billion shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev ___ 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
Re: [Nagios-users] SMS Foxbox
On Nov 5, 2010, at 4:44 AM, Rutger Blom wrote: Hello list, I was wondering if any of you have experience with using the SMS Foxbox and Nagios? Are you satisfied with the product? Is there any other solution you would recommend instead? http://www.nagios.org/products/notification/foxbox/ /Rutger Hi Rutger, I originally demoed the SMS FoxBox while working at Nagios Enterprises in 2007. My original integration attempt was written up on the wiki http://wiki.nagios.org/index.php/ACME_SYSTEMS_SMSFoxBox. The device is a small embedded linux server that takes a SIM card and has a external antenna. *It is very important that it has cell (GSM) reception. Also my knowledge of the device is now a few years old. My experience was that it worked very well. It has the limitation that it can only send one message at a time (one GSM modem). My script from the wiki page used the web api, where you use a web address to send the message body and recipient. This was only able to handle a few requests before it overwhelmed the small web server. I later created another script that uploaded messages to a spool directory on the device (using SCP). This was able to handle a large number of messages but it takes a long time for the device to process messages. I would say if you have over 20 notification recipients you may want to look for an alternative. There are web services that handle these requests (AlarmTilt) or many people now use email addresses provided by cell providers that text phones (http://www.emailtextmessages.com/). I hope that this helps you out. Good luck in your quest! Mark Young -- The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book Blueprint to a Billion shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev ___ 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
[Nagios-users] SMS Foxbox
Hello list, I was wondering if any of you have experience with using the SMS Foxbox and Nagios? Are you satisfied with the product? Is there any other solution you would recommend instead? http://www.nagios.org/products/notification/foxbox/ /Rutger -- The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book Blueprint to a Billion shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev___ 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
[Nagios-users] SMS Foxbox
Does anybody know where I can purchase one of these in the UK at all? Also what would be the next level up for an SMS gateway, is there a server version around Cheers -- ___ 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
