Network Notifcation - SMS via Verizon

Mon Feb 11 12:57:37 UTC 2008

David Lesher wrote:
> Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
>   
>> Do you not have the option of using a tool like 'smssend' or just
>> ${10digits}@${carrier} emailing?
>>     
> Note that most such schemes may be cached for minutes/hours/days.
> There are no guarantees re: delivery time.
>
> There is some separate $cheme used by the "Vote now for CONTESTANT"
> TV-driven nonsense.
>   
    The other side of this besides the delayed receiving of messages is 
with monitoring you want to get the alerts even if your network is down 
and unable to send via email to your pager, cellphone, etc. Having an 
out of band method to get those alerts out on criticial alerts is 
paramount. I've used Nagios for many years but unfortunately have never 
worked with sending through Verizon. I've had decent experience using 
Sprint's gateways sending to my phone with minimal delay.