SMS messages are too long

The "format=sms" alerts were actually too short for me, so I wrote a script
that gives slightly more information.  It's available for download from The
Shire:
http://www.trantor.org/theshire/doku.php/alerts

On 10/23/07, Frank Flynn <user-32aefea160e6@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Ah - I thought that was only if you had a special SMS script (in the
docs it is used with a special script - it doesn't say it has to be
used that way it's just an example).  I'll use it that way.

Thanks,
Frank


On Oct 22, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Charles Jones wrote:

Are you using "format=sms" ?  ie?

HOST=somehost
MAIL user-4fd5a8861f4c@xymon.invalid format=sms

I use cingular/att and when using SMS format hobbit alerts I only
get a subject and a single line of text, so I suspect you are
getting the full normal alerts, which can be quite lengthy,
especially for "proc"

-Charles

Frank Flynn wrote:

Hi Everyone,

So I've got Hobbit all set up and working just fine.  Now when a
server times out it will send email to my cell phone (a regular
email to the phone number @ att.net).  But the text is too long
for one SMS and because of the way ATT's gateway works I will get
3 messages on a RED and 6 when it goes GREEN.

Is there a way to shorten the message for the phones?  Ideally I'd
like the message to be short for the phone but long for true
emails but I can live with everyone getting the short message.

Any ideas?