hpux notification send to sms (handphone).

[apple]

dear hpux gurus,
would like to seek your advice. how to configure sms notification when our server is down? hope to hear from you. thank you

[Gokul Chandola]

Dear Almond,
Please read the follwoing, may be usefull for your query
SMS Gateway:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_gateways
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_message_service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_transfer_agent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Message_Service_Center

You have to required some application to SEND SMS as alert. Directly, without service provider, we can not send SMS

Regards,
Gokul Chandola

[apple]

dear sir,
do u mean, we need to write a script of java program running on hpux to send alert to sms? what do u think going to company that provide the sms gateway service? hope to hear from you. thank you

[OFC_EDM]

There's two options I use:

1) The cheap option
Use mailx to send the email to the carriers SMS gateway

A list a carriers SMS email addresses can be found on my website http://kurschatz.googlepages.com
On the bottom left there's a link called "Email to SMS". It will take you to a page with the email address of many carriers.

2) The more expensive way. Buy a product such as Telalert and a special modem...forget the name of it. Which is capable of dialing the carrier directly and sending the SMS message. Telalert can be integrated with Monitoring products such as OpenView.

I prefer the cheap way

mailx -s "subject" carrier@somedomain.com < message.txt

or pipe the message in

echo "some text" |
mailx -s "subject" carrier@somedomain.com

or uuencode a file

uuencode filename.txt filename.txt | mailx -s "subject" carrier@somedomain.com

The advantage of the expensive way is reliability of delivery. And the ability to confirm delivery. As well TelAlert supports 2 way communication where the message can be delivered to a pager. The user can acknowledge or escalate message from the pager itself. Its all tracked and controlled via TelAlert. And this can all be seen in Openview with actions integrated as well. All depends on your imagination.

Cheers

[OFC_EDM]

Note in my previous post by "pager" I mean any device capable of receiving a message:

Typical pager: TAP protocol
Mobile phones: SMS

etc. etc.

The 2 way communication is not offered in all areas and you'd need to contact your provider(s) directly for confirmation of that service and how to implement.

[Jeeshan]

Hi

You can use third party notification tools like Applications Manager

http://www.appmanager.com

[apple]

dear sir,
i'm in malaysia, i need to contact our telco providers. i was thinking of seting up gsm modem and configure simple java application to send sms to handphone, but as u said may be not reliable right sir.

[OFC_EDM]

Thanks for the Acronym reminder...GSM. That's what I was referring too earlier.

What I meant was the service for the GSM modem may not be offered. You need to confirm that your provider will allow you to connect with a GSM modem...at least this was the case a few years back. Maybe things have progressed since I tried it.

I would simly ensure that whichever application you use is capable of confirming delivery. Whereby the app receives a confirmation of delivery after sending.

Regards

[apple]

dear sir,
the telco can support the notification from gsm. this morning ive read about sms gateway article.they provide with the monitoring of the sms being sent, don't think we can get from our own program rite sir?
do u still using your sms notification application? how do u feel/experience it?


we have hp command view eva, symantec command central and vmware virtual centre. these 3 applications can't send notification directly to sms. it's like we need to send sms to email and route to sms using the sms gateway provider services.

hv a nice day

[OFC_EDM]

If you can generate an alert and forward it via email/SNMP you can send an SMS.

If using a GSM modem you need an application to use the modem such as Telalert.

How you get the alert to TelAlert or equivalent application is up to you. Email/SNMP/OVO etc.

TelAlert can receive alerts from Openview for instance. Then it will process the alert and send it out via the GSM modem.

You may want to speak to a consultant to help you out with this. As they can look at your environment and help you determine the best methods for message delivery.

GSM is nice but I prefer the cheaper solution which is to send an email to the providers SMS gateway. I've never had significant issues with this.

Cheers