Notifications via SMS

[dominiqs]

I am looking at sending service and host alerts via an alternative medium from email ie sms , however i can see that Nagios XI has a built SMS notification option but when i try to configure this i realize this is very US based, it only shows US based mobile srvice providers .I am based in the UK and so couldnt test this.I need to configure notifications via sms as a backup just in case our email server is down to eliminate a single point of failure.
I have looked in the FAQ section on the Nagios website under Support=> Knowledgebase => FAQs ..FAQ F0065 mentions that you can install a product called YAPS and then configure it to send SMS notificatiosn , is this product too for US only or can be configured for UK and international use?.
how does that work with the already built in SMS notification in Nagios XI ?.Nagios Please advice !

My advice to Nagios can you please make this product international-friendly .it is a good product though

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards

[tonyyarusso]

The normal way XI handles SMS notifications is actually to just use e-mail. The configuration UI to set this up is US-specific because that's the only region we have looked up the e-mail address formats for the carriers in. For instance, to send an SMS to a Verizon user you can send it as an e-mail to [email protected], where the first part is their phone number. To use this elsewhere such as in the UK, you will need to look up the address formats for the providers you need (assuming they offer an e-mail to SMS gateway like the US ones), and add those as secondary e-mail addresses to your contacts.

We are also looking into ways of making XI talk to an SMS modem directly as a future add-on, but this capability is not available yet.

[aessem]

i have developed my own solution, special build for nagios/xi based on .NET, run on server/pc hooked with ordinary GSM modem/Cellphone. Building my own solutions give me freedom to tackle some problem on GSM modem hardware interaction, such as modem hick-ups/hung.

I have tested this sms notification along with my test on Nagios XI, and I would say this program is stable to give 24x7 sms notification for our nagios xi. will be anyone interested with this sort of program for a small fee? (to replace my midnight awake time)

[mmestnik]

Did you use SNPP?

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1861.html
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-SNPP/li ... /Server.pm
http://search.cpan.org/~johanvdb/GSM-SMS-0.162/

There are also land-line modem solutions.
http://www.sendpage.org/
http://www.qpage.org/

We hope to implement some of these as part of our product.

[cholm]

Hi,

we need to set up alerting via SMS for our Nagios. How do we have to configure nagios and what hardware is needed for this way of alerting. We need to connect the Hardware via RS232 for the virtual machine does not support USB.
Is there any recommendation for hardware to use?

Thanks for your help.
Regards,
cholm

[mmestnik]

Any(most) cellphone will do, though we do have a better solution using a MultiTech [1]iSMS solution.

1. http://www.multitech.com/en_US/PRODUCTS ... ModemiSMS/

There is a Wizard for this device lying around somewhere, It uses the web interface on this device.