Using Mobile Phone email addys for monitoring

Roland Dobbins rdobbins at cisco.com
Thu Sep 6 21:16:55 UTC 2007



On Sep 6, 2007, at 1:46 PM, Rick Kunkel wrote:

> Is SMTP to a mobile phone a fundamentally flawed way to do this?

Yes, IMHO - too many things to fail, including potentially your own  
DCN, the SMTP gateway service from the mobile operator, et. al.

I'd strongly recommend a direct NMS-to-SMS gateway, etc., OOB.  And  
of course, multiple methods in event of failure of one of them.

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