Nagios Support Forum

hi,

We have nagios core version 3.5.1 in our infra and we want to enable the nagios SMS alerting .Could you please let me know how we can enable the sms alerting in nagios core.

I'd take a look at this documentation, here:

http://matt.bottrell.com.au/archives/20 ... art-2.html

what are the different modems that we can use here. please suggest

Linux Journal did a pretty good article on this:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10605

They suggest the MultiTech Systems MultiModem iSMS Intelligent SMS Server for reasons best explained in the article.

If you don't need (or can't afford the cost of) a separate band for SMS, many carriers offer e-mail-to-SMS gateways. Wikipedia had a list of them. That page has been deleted, but it's still available in the Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... =firefox-a

In this case, for example, the pager contact address for a phone on Verizon would be: Note that with this method, though, if for whatever reason Nagios can't get e-mail messages out (your mail server is down, or your wired connection's been dug up by a backhoe, your Nagios host's ethernet cable gets unplugged, etc.), you won't receive the SMS.

cbeattie is correct for the reasons mentioned. One note: SMS email gateways tend to be locked down a bit more than other email servers. You may need to have an fqdn or change your sender/from email address to be legitimate (no root@localhost or [email protected] etc.). It varies from carrier to carrier, so you may need to consult your mail logs (and potentially your carrier) to troubleshoot if the email is bouncing.