Paolo Marchiori wrote:
> In my case I wanted to link the thing to nagios as to page me in case
> something (including both internet connections) go down (ie: excavators
> excavating the cables...). I use a Falcon modem (actually a repackaged
> Siemens IC35 cellphone) serially linked to a linux machine and smstools
> on debian; just put my message file (format: "To: %s\n\n%s",
> intl-number-without-leading-+, message-text) in the output spool
> directory, and pronto! it texts me out. Should I reply, the message gets
> deposited in the incoming directory and a script of choice called to
> parse it and take action (like, in nagios, acknowledging problems so
> that colleagues are notified and further notifications of the problems
> shut up).
Yeah we faced the same issue. Most datacentres don't like mobile phones
so I presume GSM modems are out. We got around it by renting a server in
a different country to do the nagios stuff and hook nagios up to
clickatell. The assumption being that network connections to both
systems are unlikely to go down at the same time ;)
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