[hobbit] sms alert sample script - good solution?

[Benjamin P. August]

We don't run the email system, so we can't be alerted for it.

We've found that there is such a thing as "good enough" in this case.

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--Ben
Benjamin P. August
System Administrator - VPUE
Stanford University


Quoting Oliver Grube <oliver_grube at campbellsoup.com>:

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> Hello,
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> this is just my opinion and something to thought about...
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> I have read about SMS alerting here. I think, from a reliability point of
> view, this kind of alerting, is not stable enough.
> Your designs are based on sending an eMail to an SMS sending system.
> A simple question: How do you get alerts for your eMail system?
> We have implemented this functionality with a simple modem attached to the
> Hobbit system and we dial the SMS provider directly.
> I think, that this is a more reliable solution, if you want to do SMS
> Alerting.
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> Another option is to give the important guys Blackberry or similar devices
> and let them read the alert via eMail.
> Advantage: they can access internal hobbit systems directly and confirm
> alerts...
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> As I said... just some thoughts...
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> mit freundlichen Grüßen - Best regards
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> Oliver Grube
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> Yes, that's what we did.
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> ----from hobbit-alerts.cfg----
> $SUPPSMS=SCRIPT /u01/webapps/hobbit/server/ext/smsplus.sh
> [comma-separated list of SMS email addresses] DURATION>6 REPEAT=120
> RECOVERED
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> --Ben
> Benjamin P. August
> System Administrator - VPUE
> Stanford University
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> Quoting Taylor Lewick <tlewick at tradebotsystems.com>:
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>> I mean, we have a staff of 5 people who I would want to send the alert
>> too on their cell phones.  Can I create a group alias like IT-NOC that
>> would have 5 cell phone numbers to alert to?
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:09 PM
>> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>> Subject: Re: [hobbit] sms alert sample script
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>> 5 lines or an alias?
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>> On 4/10/08, Taylor Lewick <tlewick at tradebotsystems.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks, I was actually after the smsplus.sh part, hadn't bothered to
>>> check deadcat, I should have done that.  Ben posted the smsplus.sh, so
>>> between the two I think I am good to go.
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>>> I believe I can setup macros with the hobbit-alerts.cfg file too.  Can
>>> you set up an alias group so that you can send SMS alerts to multiple
>>> cell phones, i.e. say you want to send it out to 5 phones at once?
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>>> Thanks,
>>> Taylor
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>>> ________________________________
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>>> From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
>>> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:28 PM
>>> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>>> Subject: Re: [hobbit] sms alert sample script
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>>> HOST=*
>>>   MAIL josh at imaginenetworksllc.com COLOR=RED DURATION>15m REPEAT=60
>>> RECOVERED FORMAT=SMS
>>>   #SCRIPT /home/hobbituser/server/ext/smsplus.sh
>>> josh at imaginenetworksllc.com DURATION>15m
>>>   #4sms#MAIL 9371231234 at txt.att.com COLOR=RED DURATION>15m REPEAT=60
>>> RECOVERED FORMAT=SMS
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>>> This what you're after?
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>>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Taylor Lewick
>>> <tlewick at tradebotsystems.com> wrote:
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>>> Can someone provide a sample script they are using to send out SMS
>>> alerts via hobbit.  If you are using add-on tools to do this please
>>> provide which tools you are using.
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>>> Is anyone creating aliases for phone numbers?
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>>> Thanks,
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>>> Taylor
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