SMS options 🔗 link

For quite some time, we've been sending alerts via emails to <number>@<telco>.tld.  It works, mostly, but I'd like to do better.  I'm considering getting a wireless modem (without data), or using a service like Twilio.

Does anyone have any warnings or advice beyond the obvious?

In the past I have used an old fashioned voice/fax modem and vgetty software to actually dial and send a voice message to our oncall people (ie me).
This worked really well as SMS is not guaranteed delivery and some people were out of Mobile range. They would divert their mobile to their home line so they could still get the alert. I used a combination of "canned voice messages" and text to voice.

With todays VOIP you get do this soo much easier.  There are also commercial solutions too that you can install and interface with DTMF funcationality too, so you can actually "Press 2" to acknowledge the alert.


Alan Ford
Senior Database Administrator

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From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Dave "doughnut" Fogarty
Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2019 10:17 AM
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Subject: [Xymon] SMS options

For quite some time, we've been sending alerts via emails to <number>@<telco>.tld.  It works, mostly, but I'd like to do better.  I'm considering getting a wireless modem (without data), or using a service like Twilio.

Does anyone have any warnings or advice beyond the obvious?

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Personally we send an email and turn it into a phone call.  There are
several services that do this but if you want the one we use hit me offlist.

It seems like all it does is use festival, reading the message, and then
say it to you.  Ultimately we just need one of those phone call things to
make someone look at their email.

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

On Mon, Feb 4, 2019, 7:17 PM Dave "doughnut" Fogarty <user-138a88324cb7@xymon.invalid

wrote:

Twilio all the way.

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