Alternate alerting
list Kevin
Hello all
I have read the section that describes "If e-mail is not enough" that talks about sending an SMS message or something else but there is no explanation of what generates the actual connection. There is a reference to "/usr/local/bin/smsalert" but this does not exist. Do I have to first find, install, and configure some sort of SMS alert program? If so, can someone suggest one? Also, can Hobbit send a page to a traditional paging carrier? If so, how is that done?
Thanks
kevin
list Rob MacGregor
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On 1/7/07, Kevin <user-a004b26f09c6@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hello all
I have read the section that describes "If e-mail is not enough"
that talks about sending an SMS message or something else but there is
no explanation of what generates the actual connection. There is a
reference to "/usr/local/bin/smsalert" but this does not exist. Do I
have to first find, install, and configure some sort of SMS alert
program? If so, can someone suggest one?Not without knowing your carrier. There are a number of programs out there, I quite like MercurySMS but YMMV.
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Also, can Hobbit send a page to a traditional paging carrier? If so, how is that done?
You'll just need the appropriate software for your carrier. I've been
using the Net::SNPP perl module as my pager supplier has an SNPP
interface.
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list Ralph Mitchell
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On 1/7/07, Rob MacGregor <user-07c9d92ae079@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On 1/7/07, Kevin <user-a004b26f09c6@xymon.invalid> wrote:[snip] Also, can Hobbit send a page to a traditional paging carrier? If so, how is that done?You'll just need the appropriate software for your carrier. I've been using the Net::SNPP perl module as my pager supplier has an SNPP interface.
If all else fails, and if your pager company has a web form for sending pages, it's not that hard to post a form from a script... I've done it with AT&T, Arch and Skytel. It's generally easier than scripting logging in to a web page to test functionality. I think one company even embedded instructions in the web page saying what would need to be posted to send a page. Ralph Mitchell
list Jason Altrincham Jones
In our set-up we just opened an account with textanywhere changed hobbit-alerts.cfg to: MAIL <number>@<textanywhere>.co.uk FORMAT=SMS The path of least resistance :) Jason.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: 08 January 2007 03:20
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Alternate alerting
On 1/7/07, Rob MacGregor <user-07c9d92ae079@xymon.invalid> wrote:On 1/7/07, Kevin <user-a004b26f09c6@xymon.invalid> wrote:[snip] Also, can Hobbit send a page to a traditional paging carrier? If so, how is that done?You'll just need the appropriate software for your carrier. I've been using the Net::SNPP perl module as my pager supplier has an SNPP interface.
If all else fails, and if your pager company has a web form for sending pages, it's not that hard to post a form from a script... I've done it with AT&T, Arch and Skytel. It's generally easier than scripting logging in to a web page to test functionality. I think one company even embedded instructions in the web page saying what would need to be posted to send a page. Ralph Mitchell