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Subject:	Easier Way
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2014-04-30 07:41

There is a much easier way to simulate an SMS message. Email your phone's #......for example My provider is US cellular, so my phone's "email address" is 1234567890@mms.uscc.net

The easiest way to find the phone's email address is to use the text messaging app and email yourself!

Hydruid

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Subject:	That will work but it defeats
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2014-04-30 07:44

That will work but it defeats the purpose of being able to get notifications out if your T1, or MPLS circuits goes down. When the site cannot access the internet.. then what

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Subject:	I see now...
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2014-04-30 07:54

I see what you are going for now. I don't have any experience with using a model of any sorts with Zenoss directly, but many of our sites have a 3G/4G USB Modem connected to a small router for failover.

However you could do the same thing with the Zenoss server, depending on your OS, you could setup routing or failover.

Hydruid

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Subject:	Here's what I found yesterday
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2014-04-30 08:05

Here's what I found yesterday: http://community.zenoss.org/docs/DOC-5819

My issue with proceeding further on this test is the files listed at the bottom are no where to be found.. and I cannot contact the author.

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Subject:	That article looks like it
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2014-04-30 08:15

That article looks like it was written for 3.x but again it overly complicates things. If you use a 3G Pay-As-You-Go modem and setup failover to it when the main internet dies, you don't have to change anything in zenoss for it to work correctly!

Take a look at this article: http://serverfault.com/questions/360131/ubuntu-failover-from-ethernet-to...

Hydruid

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Subject:	SMS
Author:	Jan Garaj
Posted:	2014-05-02 17:49

1.) email to SMS
You still run your email to SMS gateway on your Zenoss server
e.g. http://mteixeira.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/email-to-sms-gateway-in-linux/
or UTFG for another solutions
2.) GSM modem as backup connection
Yes, it's also solution, but when your gateway is down, it will be probably overloaded (well,you can setup FW, shaping, ...)

3.) Think about your monitoring concept
Base forgotten question is: WHO monitors your monitoring system Forgot HA solution and built smart solution: huge primary monitoring on site (in DC) + light secondary external monitoring (in AWS/another part of country). Light monitoring monitors only primary monitoring system (up, alerting, health, response time, ...) and also primary mon itors base functions of secondary monitoring - cross monitoring - and you don't need GSM modem.

I work with this smart setup, when you didn't have problem with downtime of primary (typically upgrade), because secondary contains minimal set of monitoring checks. And it wasn't distributed monitoring :-)

Anyway, think what do you/your business need and then make a decision. Good luck :-)

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Subject:	Hi,
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2014-05-26 04:22

Hi,

I'm having success but one thing (message text) is missing, go check my thread: http://www.zenoss.org/forum/1396

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Subject:	Our system uses email 2 sms.
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2014-05-28 15:10

Our system uses email 2 sms. One of the Zenoss servers has an email2sms (Procmail) running, and places the file in a dropfolder for SMStools. The server has a GSM modem attached and the SMStools uses this to send the text messages.

It has proven rock solid and it is easy to use email notifications in zenoss for this purpose. It typically takes less than 15-20 seconds from the event in Zenoss to receiving the text message.

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Subject:	If your T1's are completely
Author:	Andrew Kirch
Posted:	2014-05-30 14:43

If your T1's are completely down, it's entirely possible to lose cell service with it, especially if both the nearby tower, and your phone share a fiber conduit that just had a painful encounter with a backhoe. (This has happened to me) You might want to look further at a satellite paging/SMS system. While I don't make specific recommendations, I can point you in a direction to start: SPOT is one, there are quite a few bluetooth enabled satellite devices, and the message rates are usually <$.25 each. you might need a USB dongle, but using such a system will merely require a shellscript (command notification).

Andrew Kirch

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