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Re: Using Mobile Phone email addys for monitoring


From: Vince <jhary () unsane co uk>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:33:44 +0100


matthew zeier wrote:



 > Anyone else have any issues, past or present, with this kind of thing?


It takes ~ 7 minutes from the time Nagios sends an email sms to AT&T to the time it hits my phone. I'm using @mobile.mycingular.com because mmode.com stopped working (which results in at least two txt pages vs. the one I was used to).

 > Is SMTP to a mobile phone a fundamentally flawed way to do this?

I'm beginning to think it is!

Any place I've worked thats used sms alerting has ended up using either sms-tools (http://smstools.meinemullemaus.de/) or gnokki (www.gnokii.org) with a bit of scripting to send the sms ourselves.

Vince


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