[hobbit] sms alert sample script - good solution?

[Oliver Grube <oliver_grube (at) campbellsoup.com>]

Hello,

this is just my opinion and something to thought about...

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.

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...

As I said... just some thoughts...

mit freundlichen Grüßen - Best regards
Hälsningar - Met vriendelijke groeten
Sincères salutations

Oliver Grube
EU Security&Controls Manager




                                                                       
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Yes, that's what we did.

----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


Quoting Taylor Lewick <tlewick (at) tradebotsystems.com>:

> 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?
>
> -----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
>
> 5 lines or an alias?
>
>
>
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Taylor
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> This what you're after?
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Taylor Lewick
>> <tlewick (at) tradebotsystems.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Is anyone creating aliases for phone numbers?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Taylor
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Josh Luthman
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>>
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>> --- Henry Spencer
>>
>>
>
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