SMS alerts FROM number

[luczynj]

Hello all,

When I receive SMSs from Nagios XI (version 5.7.2), they come from numbers like 1410200558, 1010100024, 1402101225, 1410100053 and so on.

Each SMS some from a unique sender number. I'd like to have them all come from the same number. Is this possible? When I get 30 SMSs, I have to view them each one at a time and then delete them one at a time.

Thank you!

[ssax]

This is likely coming from your SMS carrier which is probably sending from a group of numbers.

Who is your carrier?

[luczynj]

Hi Sean,

I'm with AT&T.

Can we configure the SMS to be coming *from* another number?

When we have a host that goes down, anyone who gets an SMS along with email notification spends a good amount of time manually deleting each alert. If they all come from the same number, it would be much less annoying and cumbersome.

Regards,
JL

[ssax]

It doesn't support it from what I can tell (otherwise it would show the from that the emails show, since it's showing a phone number this would all be handled on the AT&T side):

https://forums.att.com/conversations/da ... 4285315245

You can double-check that's the case with this:

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/usr/bin/printf "%b" "TEST" | /bin/mail -s 'TEST' -r 'XXXXXXXXXXX' -s 'FROM:XXXXXXXXXX' [email protected]

That will send with the from address to XXXXXXXXXXX, if that doesn't change it then it's not likely possible to be changed, you may need to reach out to AT&T and ask them if it's even possible.

EDIT: Mine is now showing the FRM in the message but the number is still random that it came from.