Re: [U2] sending text messages to a regular cell phone
In the uk i use www.textanywhere.co.uk for a few applications - it works very well - You don't say what country you are in (hence i presume the USA ;) but i assume there are similar companies there. It is a simple http web service that just uses a get so is s simple as formulating a url and so can be done using the callhttp api or using something like wget or curl. Rgds Symeon. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Barber, Bonnie Sent: 05 November 2009 20:06 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] sending text messages to a regular cell phone We send ourselves alerts from some of our Universe processes via UNIX sendmail. We would like to be able to send some of the critical alerts as text messages to our personal cell phones when there is no one around to monitor emails. Does anyone know if this is possible? The alerts currently go to our company pager, however the pager is rotated through our whole department and it is not always carried by someone who is familiar with our Universe OM system so the alerts are ignored. Thanks in advance for your responses. Bonnie Barber Perseus Distribution | Senior Programmer, J-Cispub 731-988-3135 Direct 800-343-4499 ext. 178 731-988-4452 Fax A smile is like a light in the window telling people you are home ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
[U2] sending text messages to a regular cell phone
We send ourselves alerts from some of our Universe processes via UNIX sendmail. We would like to be able to send some of the critical alerts as text messages to our personal cell phones when there is no one around to monitor emails. Does anyone know if this is possible? The alerts currently go to our company pager, however the pager is rotated through our whole department and it is not always carried by someone who is familiar with our Universe OM system so the alerts are ignored. Thanks in advance for your responses. Bonnie Barber Perseus Distribution | Senior Programmer, J-Cispub 731-988-3135 Direct 800-343-4499 ext. 178 731-988-4452 Fax A smile is like a light in the window telling people you are home ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] sending text messages to a regular cell phone
Typically sending a text to your cell phone is just as easy as sending it to any email, it just depends on the provider. For example, to send a text to my Verizon cell phone, the email address is 8105551...@vtext.com You just need to know what your cell provider's standard is. David Laansma IT Manager Hubbard Supply Co. Direct: 810-342-7143 Office: 810-234-8681 Fax: 810-234-6142 www.hubbardsupply.com Delivering Products, Services and Innovative Solutions -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Barber, Bonnie Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 3:06 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] sending text messages to a regular cell phone We send ourselves alerts from some of our Universe processes via UNIX sendmail. We would like to be able to send some of the critical alerts as text messages to our personal cell phones when there is no one around to monitor emails. Does anyone know if this is possible? The alerts currently go to our company pager, however the pager is rotated through our whole department and it is not always carried by someone who is familiar with our Universe OM system so the alerts are ignored. Thanks in advance for your responses. Bonnie Barber Perseus Distribution | Senior Programmer, J-Cispub 731-988-3135 Direct 800-343-4499 ext. 178 731-988-4452 Fax A smile is like a light in the window telling people you are home ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] sending text messages to a regular cell phone
Any cell phone has an email associated with it so you can do it - I've set the same thing up here with unix sendmail. For example, I use verizon wireless and if you send an email to me at 201xxx...@vtext.com it goes as a text message to my cell. -Dianne Barber, Bonnie wrote: We send ourselves alerts from some of our Universe processes via UNIX sendmail. We would like to be able to send some of the critical alerts as text messages to our personal cell phones when there is no one around to monitor emails. Does anyone know if this is possible? The alerts currently go to our company pager, however the pager is rotated through our whole department and it is not always carried by someone who is familiar with our Universe OM system so the alerts are ignored. Thanks in advance for your responses. Bonnie Barber Perseus Distribution | Senior Programmer, J-Cispub 731-988-3135 Direct 800-343-4499 ext. 178 731-988-4452 Fax A smile is like a light in the window telling people you are home ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] sending text messages to a regular cell phone
I do this on a regular basis. In /etc/aliases (run newaliases after editing this, or if that exec doesn't exist, run sendmail -bi) I put the following type of lines: klpcell: nnn...@tmomail.net,karl bobcell: nnn...@mmode.com,bob where NN is the ten-digit cell phone number. The part after the '@'-sign is the domain of the cell phone company, T-Mobile=tmomail.net and ATT=mmode.com (I believe that's correct) and a copy is sent to the users's regular email inbox, which is useful if you use Verizon, which chops text messages down to 160 characters (I don't know why, they just do). Each carrier has a different domain, with Cricket not having one, so this won't be possible without some screen scraping software that can go to their website. I hope this helps. Karl On Thu, November 5, 2009 1:05 pm, Barber, Bonnie wrote: We send ourselves alerts from some of our Universe processes via UNIX sendmail. We would like to be able to send some of the critical alerts as text messages to our personal cell phones when there is no one around to monitor emails. Does anyone know if this is possible? The alerts currently go to our company pager, however the pager is rotated through our whole department and it is not always carried by someone who is familiar with our Universe OM system so the alerts are ignored. Thanks in advance for your responses. Bonnie Barber Perseus Distribution | Senior Programmer, J-Cispub 731-988-3135 Direct 800-343-4499 ext. 178 731-988-4452 Fax A smile is like a light in the window telling people you are home ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users --- Karl Pearson ka...@ourldsfamily.com Owner/Administrator of the sites at http://ourldsfamily.com --- To mess up your Linux PC, you have to really work at it; to mess up a microsoft PC you just have to work on it. --- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. --Benjamin Franklin --- ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] sending text messages to a regular cell phone
I do something similar from nagios using Clickatell (http://www.clickatell.com) using a simple http call. Credits are cheap and dont expire from month to month. While many cell providers have a email gateway, I found this method unreliable (not good when a server is down). I'd rather pay $20 or whatever it was for 400 credits every so often than risk the email gateway throwing out the messages (which it did to me). Robert Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential information, privileged material (including material protected by the solicitor-client or other applicable privileges), or constitute non-public information. Any use of this information by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately reply to the sender and delete this information from your system. Use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this transmission by unintended recipients is not authorized and may be unlawful. Barber, Bonnie bonnie.bar...@perseusbooks.com 11/5/2009 2:05 PM We send ourselves alerts from some of our Universe processes via UNIX sendmail. We would like to be able to send some of the critical alerts as text messages to our personal cell phones when there is no one around to monitor emails. Does anyone know if this is possible? The alerts currently go to our company pager, however the pager is rotated through our whole department and it is not always carried by someone who is familiar with our Universe OM system so the alerts are ignored. Thanks in advance for your responses. Bonnie Barber Perseus Distribution | Senior Programmer, J-Cispub 731-988-3135 Direct 800-343-4499 ext. 178 731-988-4452 Fax A smile is like a light in the window telling people you are home ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] sending text messages to a regular cell phone
In message 5c6143395b81b6f741a069337c6f444e.squir...@webmail.ourldsfamily.com, Karl Pearson ka...@ourldsfamily.com writes and a copy is sent to the users's regular email inbox, which is useful if you use Verizon, which chops text messages down to 160 characters (I don't know why, they just do). That's the SMS standard. SMS stands for *short* message service, which is defined (iirc) to be a maximum of 160 characters. Typically it's actually less, about 130. Some systems will break up the message and send it as 130/160 character chunks. Others won't. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman pi...@thewolery.demon.co.uk 'Yings, yow graley yin! Suz ae rikt dheu,' said the blue man, taking the thimble. 'What *is* he?' said Magrat. 'They're gnomes,' said Nanny. The man lowered the thimble. 'Pictsies!' Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett 1998 Visit the MaVerick web-site - http://www.maverick-dbms.org Open Source Pick ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] sending text messages to a regular cell phone
I know you can send an alpha-numeric page to a pager via SNPP but I'm not sure if it will work for a cell phone. We do that in the case that sendmail is having issues and backing up so an email can't get out. There is a simple to use perl module. We wrote a very simple perl script to call the perl module from the command line. script #!/usr/bin/perl # # This is a script that can be called from a shell script # to send a message via Net::SNPP using variables passed # in by the command line. # # use Net::SNPP; $snpp = Net::SNPP-new($ARGV[0], Debug = 0); $snpp-send( Pager = $ARGV[1], Message = $ARGV[2], ) || die $snpp-message; $snpp-quit; /script You simply pass the server address, pager number, and short message. - Josh -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Dianne Ackerman Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 3:09 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] sending text messages to a regular cell phone Any cell phone has an email associated with it so you can do it - I've set the same thing up here with unix sendmail. For example, I use verizon wireless and if you send an email to me at 201xxx...@vtext.com it goes as a text message to my cell. -Dianne Barber, Bonnie wrote: We send ourselves alerts from some of our Universe processes via UNIX sendmail. We would like to be able to send some of the critical alerts as text messages to our personal cell phones when there is no one around to monitor emails. Does anyone know if this is possible? The alerts currently go to our company pager, however the pager is rotated through our whole department and it is not always carried by someone who is familiar with our Universe OM system so the alerts are ignored. Thanks in advance for your responses. Bonnie Barber Perseus Distribution | Senior Programmer, J-Cispub 731-988-3135 Direct 800-343-4499 ext. 178 731-988-4452 Fax A smile is like a light in the window telling people you are home ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] sending text messages to a regular cell phone
The problem with using email to sms is that at least in Sprint's case, they do monitor message traffic. During one weekend when one of my connections into a Dallas datacenter bounced a couple times, and my Atlanta nagios system saw it and sent messages, Spring decided it was spam... They blacklisted the sender (of course without letting me know) and the alert then went into a black hole. The following real problem, no messages went out. Fortunately the nagios systems also email me directly. I saw those a little while later. When I contacted customer service about the sms messages not reaching. Their reply was email to sms was not guaranteed, nor supposedly could they investigate why it happened. It wasn't until I pushed the issue that someone decided it was possible to find out what happened. Sure enough a simple test of changing the nagios' from email address confirmed it was blacklisted. They could not (or would not) whitelist an email for me. I looked it up... I use Clickatell's Central service (they have numerous options) and pay $26.16 for 400 sms credits, which lasts me 6+ months for several servers having dozens of virtualized servers and 100's processes (load, users, disk space, raid, etc) monitored from 2 separate nagios systems. Messages can be sent by: HTTP/S SMTP COM OBJECT XML FTP SMPP SOAP and there is a message callback feature to check message delivery if you need to be absolutely sure it got there. I've yet to have a clickatell sms message not get through. Robert Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential information, privileged material (including material protected by the solicitor-client or other applicable privileges), or constitute non-public information. Any use of this information by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately reply to the sender and delete this information from your system. Use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this transmission by unintended recipients is not authorized and may be unlawful. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
