[Xymon] State of the art SMS alerting?

[Jon Dustin]

>>> On 1/7/2014 at 7:59 PM, in message <52CCA30D.5000404 at alaska.gov>,
John Thurston
<john.thurston at alaska.gov> wrote:
> 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.


We have been running this package for several years:
http://smstools3.kekekasvi.com/

Connected to a MultiTech GSM modem:
http://www.multitech.com/en_US/products/families/multimodemgprs/

I cannot remember the exact model of modem we have, but it connects via
serial port and works very well. Sending SMS messages is not
particularly speedy (about 2 seconds for each message), but it works
fairly well.

Good luck!

-- 
 
Jon Dustin - Network Specialist
University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME  207-780-4152