steve Posted February 22, 2007 Posted February 22, 2007 We currently use Ipswitch What's Up Gold to monitor our network. As part of this notifications can be sent via SMS. I was wondering if anyone else uses SMS for notification of failures of servers / switches, and who you use to provide the SMS service. I've just been looking at FastSMS which might fit the bill.
MkII Posted February 22, 2007 Posted February 22, 2007 Is there also a cheaper way to achieve this? The SMS message handling seems cheap at £10 for 100 messages (if i'm reading that right!)
plexer Posted February 22, 2007 Posted February 22, 2007 This account has a 90 day time limit. The next step up is £80. Ben
CyberNerd Posted February 22, 2007 Posted February 22, 2007 Currently I don't do it, but if I did I'd use csoft (because I have an account there and use it for texting, I never figured out that stupid autocomplete text - I need a real keyboard). I'd then use one of these scripts http://csoft.co.uk/api to send important server events to me. In practice I just have the servers email me if they have any problems because I'm never that far from a computer. edit: this link http://www.csoft.co.uk/sms/example_code/index.htm
steve Posted February 22, 2007 Author Posted February 22, 2007 This account has a 90 day time limit. The next step up is £80. Which gives 1000 texts with an unlimited life - 8p each isn't bad. I've been looking further at this and there are a couple of issues I need to sort out in my head: What if one of the following fails- email server fails - no SMS switch between monitoring server / email fails - no SMS switch between email / internet - no SMS internet is down - no SMS So there will be at least 4 situations where I would be unaware of any problems. Is it still worth sending SMS's without everything being reported? Hmmmmm....
plexer Posted February 22, 2007 Posted February 22, 2007 nokia 5110 with datacable and pre paid sim card plugged directly into serial port on server. Relevant software to send messages. Ben
plexer Posted February 22, 2007 Posted February 22, 2007 http://www.x11.net/wiki/index.php/Setting_up_an_SMS_Gateway
CyberNerd Posted February 22, 2007 Posted February 22, 2007 What if one of the following fails- Redundancy ?
Geoff Posted February 22, 2007 Posted February 22, 2007 nokia 5110 with datacable and pre paid sim card plugged directly into serial port on server. Relevant software to send messages. Linux servers can use gnokii to do this.
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