[Xymon] How to setup SMS service?

[Ralph Mitchell]

I've heard of people doing that using gnokii to talk over serial port to an
old Nokia phone.

Ralph Mitchell


On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

> On 10-10-2011 10:35, Carl Inglis wrote:
> > This is something that's always amused me - if I've got an email2SMS
> > service set up, how do I get the SMS to tell me that my mail server or
> > mail provider or connectivity's gone down?
>
> Indeed ...
>
>
> > Personally I use SMS_Client to send SMS directly via the POTS for
> > critical alerts.
>
> GSM modems in the form of USB sticks are extremely common around here
> (don't know about the US, but I'd suspect you have them also). Stick one or
> two of those on your Xymon server, and add a bit of software to interface it
> via Xymon's "script" alert mechanism - voila, alerting that doesn't rely on
> your Internet-connection or the availability of a mailserver.
>
> I use the "smstools" package from Debian Linux to manage the GSM modem.
> Works fine, only problem is that the modems have a bad habit of going into a
> "sleep" mode that requires reloading the driver before they wake up.
> Probably a specific hardware issue with these modems, but since I have a
> work-around it isn't much of a problem.
>
> For bonus points I interfaced with Postscript for a home-made mail->sms
> gateway.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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