On 1/7/2014 at 7:59 PM, in message <user-a938bbcddc1e@xymon.invalid>,
John Thurston
<user-ce4d79d99bab@xymon.invalid> 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 XXX-XXX-XXXX