sms messaging without a net?

Tue Aug 3 15:58:24 UTC 2004

On Tuesday 03 August 2004 05:17 am, Dan Hollis wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to send SMS messages without an internet
> connection?
>
> Having a network monitoring system send sms pages via email very quickly
> runs into chicken-egg scenario. How do you email a page to let the admins
> know their net has gone down. :-P
>
> AT&T shut down their TAP dialup late last year.
>
> The only method that comes to mind is to buy a GSM modem which has SMS
> messaging capability.
>
> Has anyone done this?
>
> -Dan

We use SNPP directly to our Nextel phones.  AFAIK nextel has an SNPP dialup at 
NPA-NXX-NOTE where the NPA-NXX is the same as your phone number.  We have 
nagios due this via qpage, works like a charm. 

-Patrick 

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