--On Wednesday, October 05, 2005 2:39 PM +0530 ankush grover
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hey friends,
I am trying to configure sms alerts for my servers.But I am getting the
errors
calling alert sms.alert for apache2/HTTP
(/usr/lib/mon/alert.d/sms.alert,my number) 192.168.1.68
<http://192.168.1.68>
Oct 5 14:28:42 linux mon[6664]: could not exec alert
/usr/lib/mon/alert.d/sms.alert: No such file or directory
Either the file /usr/lib/mon/alert.d/sms.alert doesn't exist, its not
executable, or the binary referenced in the first line (/usr/bin/perl)
doesn't exist. If you try to run the alert by hand you should see the same
error.
However I suspect you have a bigger problem. I suspect you have not yet
read the README for sms.alert and realized that sms.alert requires having
gnokii installed, and a Nokia cell phone connected to your computer.
You probably want to look at some other form of SMS transmission. We use
snpp.alert to talk to a SNPP server that dials a modem and sends a message
via a TAPS/IXO dialup message transmission interface. However many phone
providers don't offer that service anymore, so we often use email to the
various cellular provider's email/sms gateways. i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED],
etc.
Personally I don't feel that relying on SMS messaging for mission critical
notifications is a good idea. We *primarily* use text messaging with
SkyTel pagers, since SkyTel actually provides a reliable messaging service.
Every cellular provider that I've check says their text messaging service
is for 'entertainment purposes only'. i.e. not reliable for business
purposes.
-David
David Nolan <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
curses: May you be forced to grep the termcap of an unclean yacc while
a herd of rogue emacs fsck your troff and vgrind your pathalias!
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