[nanog] Re: Network Notifcation - SMS via Verizon

Mon Feb 11 14:10:31 UTC 2008

Our monitoring server lives in a physically (and geographically) separate data center. We've used the SMS Gateway services like usa.bulksms.com, but we've found that number at vtext.com is very effective and just as reliable.

Matthew Evans, MCSA
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From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 8:55 AM
To: Jeremy T. Bouse
Cc: wb8foz at nrk.com; nanog list
Subject: Re: [nanog] Re: Network Notifcation - SMS via Verizon

>     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.
>
        Our solution, crufty as it might be, was that our monitoring
server has a modem on it. As long as the pots lines are up, we just
have it ring the on-call cell phone. When you see the caller ID, you
know its time to get to a terminal. Usually our 10digit at verizon would
follow 10-15 seconds later.

                Tuc/TBOH