[BBLISA] bblisa Digest, Vol 152, Issue 2

[Jon Dustin]

Several years ago I used the following:

http://www.multitech.com/brands/multimodem-cell
http://smstools3.kekekasvi.com/index.php?p=

USB->serial adapter, connected to Linux system, worked VERY well for
sending SMS text messages. Not terribly speedy to send the messages,
because all the commands are done via 'AT' commands to the modem, but it
worked well.

Good luck!

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 12:00 PM, <bblisa-request at bblisa.org> wrote:

>    1. Re: cloud alerting services and/or sms modem? (Rob Taylor)
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> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 18:17:44 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Rob Taylor <rgt at wi.mit.edu>
> To: "Bblisa at Bblisa. Org" <bblisa at bblisa.org>
> Subject: Re: [BBLISA] cloud alerting services and/or sms modem?
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> Hey guys. Thanks for all the replies. I appreciate it. For the people out
> there that have used/recommended an SMS modem
> do you have a make/model that you could recommend? I have seen that there
> are some that are lan based vs serial based, which could be useful for
> multiple systems being
> able to use it. (Although I could probably hang a serial based one off a
> terminal server and make use of it that way).
> Let me know which models you have used. Also, are there cmda vs gsm ones?
> And, what carrier plan do you get for the sms modem, since it will only
> ever text?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> rgt
>
> Whitehead Network/System Administrator
>
> ----- On Jul 29, 2016, at 5:30 PM, Rob Taylor(Whitehead) rgt at wi.mit.edu
> wrote:
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> > Hi Guys. Where I work we have been using nagios for fault monitoring and
> having
> > it send alerts to our cell phones via the carriers email-to-text
> gateways.
> > We have been having some reliability issues with some carriers, where
> people
> > haven't been getting our alerts, although the mail gateway accepted the
> > message.
> > So, I'm looking at the possibility of making use of an external service,
> such as
> > opsgenie for alerting, or trying to send alerts via sms modem.
> > Does anyone out there in bblisa land have any experience with either? It
> appears
> > that opsgenie has some acknowledgement and escalation as part of the
> alerting,
> > so
> > if the on-call person doesn't get/respond to the page, it can alert the
> next
> > person in line, and can integrate with other services like slack.
> >
> > Let me know what you think, good or bad? I realize that our internet
> connection
> > needs to be up for opsgenie to work(which is why I thought of an sms
> modem as
> > another option), but we monitor external connectivity via another cloud
> > service, so if internet access goes down, we would get alerted on that
> as well.
> > I just need to make sure not all the cloud alerting providers are
> running in the
> > same AWS AZ, etc.. :-)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > rgt
> >
> > Whitehead Network/System Administrator
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