Hi Reza
Does it have to be SMS? If it's for monitor-alerting/notification there's another way: real phone call which tells you whats the problem. SMS can be overheard especially when in deepsleep and the receiving mobile doesnt have a long-loud-fancy sms-tone.
I have in my nagios box a ISDN BRI card with Asterisk/festival. When there's something to notify, festival text2speech's the alert message, and asterisk callsme and play's back whats about.
Festival is not (yet) a good speech-engine, but with a bit a intelligent text and a bit training you got into what nagios is trying to say. And depending on the timeouts you're setting, the message even gets to your voicemail which will be notified by sms (usually).
I can even acknowledge problems by pressing '5' :)
Cheers josh
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Von: Reza Kordi [mailto:reza.kordi@clue.ch] Gesendet: Freitag, 3. August 2007 11:05 An: swinog@swinog.ch Betreff: [swinog] SMS alerting solution
Hi Guys,
Does anyone know of a solution for sending SMS alerts.
I am looking for a small appliance with GSM interface/antenna and network interface (IP-NET--------SMS appl.--------GSM) to be able to send sms messages from web interface and command-line.
Cheers and nice weekend.
We use the "good old" pager which has some advantages:
- it works always, doesnt matter where you are (in switzerland indeed) - you dont forget you have pikett ;-) - you make clear who has pikett (as long as you have it, you have pikett) - you hear it (even your neighbors can hear it :P)
but for sure, there are some disadvantages:
- its kinda big - yet another device
Our alerting system goes over a Siemens GSM box linked with serial to a server. Works like a charm ;-) And for the pager you can simply send SMSes, just keep in mind you're limited to 80 chars on the pager.
Pascal
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Pascal Gloor