---------------------------------------------------------------- > From: Stanley Hopcroft > Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:37:57 +1000 > Message-id: <20010612143756.H99062@IPAustralia.Gov.AU> > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:20:23PM +0800, francisv_ERASE@dagupan.com wrote: > > We're planning to make use of GSM in our operation for transmitting alert > > messages to system administrators from a monitoring station to a SMS gatewa > y > > with a GSM phone connected to it. Is there a how-to out there that outlines > > what needs to be done? > > Here is my experience with using SMS notifications from the wonderful > Netsaint product (http://www.Netsaint.ORG.) to alert people about > failures in infrastructure and applications. > > We use the Phillipe Andersons Open Source SMSLink > (http://smslink.sourceforge.net/) in conjunction with a local provider > (Vodafone) and a WaveCom WM 02 GSM modem (neat boxes: can be used to > access a box when lanlines have failed) to send messages via a home brew > Email SMS gateway (invoked by Sendmail for addresses with .page > suffixes. The gateway strips mail headers and maps username to SMS phone > number via a hash tied to an LDAP directory.). > > SMSlink is a nice product but it depends on a Linx product called > libmodem that works less well on FreeBSD (and maybe Linux AFAIK) because > it consistently reports open errors when more than one sending process > is trying to use the modem. In practise this means that sending under > heavy load conditions is not as good as it could be. > > SMSLink also provides an inbound SMS -> Email facility but I have no > experience with that. ---------------------------------------------------------------- > From: "Mark Sergeant" > Date: 11 Jun 2001 23:52:45 EST > Message-id: <200106120452.f5C4qkX01292@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> "Mark Sergeant" wrote: > The best luck I had was gnokki with a spare 5110 and data cable. I ran > fecthmail on the box and it then did a forward to gnokki which used the data > cable to send out a sms to a specified phone number containing the email. ----------------------------------------------------------------