[Xymon] Flush the SMS / txt cache

[Josh Luthman]

Emailing txt.att.net or vztext.com (something like that) is an AT&T or VZW
email -> SMS service.  The user in the email address is the destination
phone number.

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
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Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373


On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Johan Sjöberg <
johan.sjoberg at deltamanagement.se> wrote:

>  Are the e-mails sent to some kind of mail-to-SMS service provider? If
> that is the case, my guess is that the queue buildup is at the service
> provider, your e-mails should be sent almost instantly.
>
>
>
> /Johan
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> *From:* xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Kenneth Falor
> *Sent:* den 11 april 2011 19:55
>
> *To:* 'xymon at xymon.com'
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Flush the SMS / txt cache
>
>
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> My alerts.cfg lines say format=sms, but if I recall they are just emails
> that sent to the phones (to an address like 12345678 at txt.att.net)  in sms
> format, correct?
>
> So if it is email, is there a flushable queue?
>
>
>
> Kenneth
>
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> *From:* xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Johan Sjöberg
> *Sent:* Monday, April 11, 2011 2:13 AM
> *To:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Flush the SMS / txt cache
>
>
>
> SMS is not a part of Xymon, so you must be using an external application
> for this. You need to check the specific application or service that you are
> using to send SMS. Start by checking in alerts.cfg (hobbit-alerts.cfg) which
> script is run for SMS alerts.
>
>
>
> /Johan
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>
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> *From:* xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Kenneth Falor
> *Sent:* den 10 april 2011 17:59
> *To:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* [Xymon] Flush the SMS / txt cache
>
>
>
> Greetings, I need to know how to flush the cache / folder where xymon keeps
> its outgoing sms’s.  On occasion my server will experience an issue and will
> over the course of an entire day send out hundreds of text messages for an
> issue that was resolved early in the morning. Sometimes it will send the
> same messages over and over again, which is what has been happening since
> yesterday morning.  The same 20 text messages have been sent to my phone 25
> times now.
>
> How can I purge the outstand messages that have yet to be sent?
>
>
>
> Kenneth
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