> I am in the process of setting up nagios for monitoring key services in > our network setup. I have already tested and used the email method of > sending notifications using Sendmail as my relay host. I would be > grateful if I get some pointers for sending notifications using SMS to a > cell number, in case of service failures and recoveries. I went through > the nagios docs. They have mentioned quite a few options for using SMS > as a notification method. But it seems that one needs to subscribe to > the services of a service provider to use any of those options. And the > service provider should be providing services in your country/location. > Is it possible to use this notification without subscribing to any > specific paid service ?
we send pages (no sms) using a modem on the nagios box and then this routes to the pager supplier - Relying on email or email-to-sms gateway is dangerous as what happens if all connectivity fails - your alerts do not get through. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null