[hobbit] SMS alerts

[Mike Rowell]

Jason,

We run a similar setup to Richards, we have a hobbit server that sends
emails to an sms provider who then forwards them via sms to our phones,
it's not a reverse charging operation, you have to buy so many credits,
but it's very reliable and they do let you know when your credits are
running low so you can top them up.

As to how often you get alerted that would be down to how your alerts
are setup in the hobbit-alerts.cfg file, in our case we wait 5minutes
before sending out an alert for most things (in case it's a brief cpu
spike etc) then we send out every 30minutes after that, mainly so you
don't get barraged by sms's.

Regards,

Mike Rowell

-----Original Message-----
From: Jones, Jason (Altrincham) [mailto:JasonAS_Jones at mentor.com] 
Sent: 22 September 2006 15:08
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] SMS alerts

Hi Richard,

So does that mean we would need to pay for the ability? If so whom do
you represent/support/something else and I will see if we can get an
account open? As far as the script goes why didn't you put it as a
script option in hobbit-alerts.cfg? but would be interested in that too
(if I can persuade boss to get the account :) ).  We're in the UK too,
with offices everywhere else but all the hobbit monitoring stuff is
based in the UK and Ireland (mostly UK) and we take care of the rest of
the world :) 

There are only two other concerns after opening the account etc. would
the text messages be reverse charge to our phones? And would we be
getting texts every 30 minutes or just one once the error occurs?

Thanks,
Jason.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Leyton [mailto:richard at leyton.org] 
Sent: 22 September 2006 14:09
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] SMS alerts

Yes - a lot of success. We're actually using a few companies to  
deliver SMS's and other content (it's a core service for the client I  
support). The hobbit SMS alerts we send are just utilising the same  
service - I've written a simple wrapper script which takes the  
various environment variables, and sends out an SMS to  either a  
group of folk (eg 'ADMINS'), or an individual (eg. 'MGMT' for combo  
alerts).

The actual mechanism is an HTTP GET (so wget does the job nicely),  
with our reference information, to our SMS provider. I understand the  
API also results in a confirmation in some situations, but I've not  
incorporated that as it currently is tied into the customers systems.

I don't know off the top of my head who the SMS companies are, but  
could perhaps find out for you if you're interested. I'm in the UK,  
but I think they have an international presence.

In years gone by (when I was using BB) I found some 'free' SMS  
companies, but that was about as good as a chocolate fire guard.

I might be able to tidy up the script and push it out for others to  
use in due course. Let me know if there's any interest, although it's  
nothing particular fancy.

r.

--
Richard Leyton - richard at leyton.org
http://www.leyton.org




On 22 Sep 2006, at 12:30, Jones, Jason ((Altrincham)) wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Anyone had any success with sending out SMS alerts from hobbit? If so
> could you let me know what methods you used and whether we need to
> purchase any software to do this? Reverse charge is acceptable
>
> Thanks,
> Jason.
>
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