[Xymon] State of the art SMS alerting?

[Carl Inglis]

Here we use an old Hayes-alike modem on our Slackware Linux box.

It's plugged into our UPS and sitting in our racks (thus avoiding problems with power cables going walkies).

The alerts are sent by a script, which calls "sms_client", which uses "TAP"[1] to talk down a POTS line to the (in our case Vodafone) service provider (thus avoiding issues with phone reception, and also avoiding issues with not being able to send email to a mail-to-SMS gateway).

http://howto.gumph.org/content/send-sms-messages-from-linux/

The link in there is broken, but you can get the source code from here: http://fossies.org/linux/misc/old/sms_client-2.0.8y.tar.gz/

There's what is apparently a near-definitive list of TAP Dialup Numbers here: http://avtech.com/Support/TAP/index.htm

Hope this information is of use.

Regards,

Carl

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telelocator_Alphanumeric_Protocol




 Carl Inglis
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-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of John Thurston
Sent: 08 January 2014 01:00
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] State of the art SMS alerting?

Can anyone shed light on the current 'state of the art' for alerting by
SMS from Xymon? Are there recommended usb-modem/software combinations to
achieve this?

I'd like to have the option of sending alerts from my Xymon server
without relying on email->SMS gateways. (When I need to announce that
the mail queue has reached critical, it seems foolish to try to dispatch
that alert by mail.)

I'm running Xymon on Solaris which will ultimately limit my options, but
I'm interested in any information you have to share.
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Department of Administration
State of Alaska
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