IDS Alert -> Mobile Phone Text Message
Mr Creosote, UK-based, asked how to make ALARMPROGRAM send an IDS alert as a mobile text message. Art S. Kagel emailed his phone provider's address and suggested checking provider options or text pager interfaces. Fred Prose used email to an alpha-pager address from case branches in his alarm script (log_full.sh). Jonathan Stowe used smsclient with a modem on a Linux machine.
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I am aware that there are systems out there that have been set up such that when an event is detected by the ALARMPROGRAM it pages an administator. I am UK-based and would like a similar mechanism but have the ALARMPROGRAM send a Text Message to a mobile 'phone (porbably via email?) - any ideas anyone ? I have no problems generating email messages from our Informix server. I am aware that www.breathe.com (amongst others I am sure) offers this free service but it currently needs manually entered text - i.e. cannot be driven by an email. Regards Mr Creosote ----------------------------------------------------------- Got questions? Get answers over the phone at Keen.com. Up to 100 minutes free! http://www.keen.com
I use SPRINT PCS here and just email to <my phone number>@sprintpcs.com and the first 100 chars or so show up as a text message on my phone. Contact local cellular and/or PCS providers and see what options they have. Also those services that require manual text entry are likely using text pager interfaces which is well defined so contact them for docs on how to do that through software as well. It may involve calling a particular phone number and uploading the text there. Art S. Kagel Mr Creosote wrote: > > I am aware that there are systems out there that have been set > up such that when an event is detected by the ALARMPROGRAM it > pages an administator. I am UK-based and would like a similar > mechanism but have the ALARMPROGRAM send a Text Message to a > mobile 'phone (porbably via email?) - any ideas anyone ? I have > no problems generating email messages from our Informix server. > I am aware that www.breathe.com (amongst others I am sure) > offers this free service but it currently needs manually entered > text - i.e. cannot be driven by an email. > > Regards > > Mr Creosote > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Got questions? Get answers over the phone at Keen.com. > Up to 100 minutes free! > http://www.keen.com
The alpha pages we use allow for messages to be sent to an email address. For example we use Airtouch and if my pager number is (602) 123-4567 to send an alpha page the message would be sent to 6021234567@myairmail.com. We have added various CASE values to our ALARM_PROGRAM log_full.sh that look like the following: case "$EVENT_CLASS" in xx) echo $INFORMIXSERVER $EVENT_MSG \\ |mail -s "${EVENT_MSG}" 6021234567@myairmail.com ;;
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 05:05:47 -0700, Mr Creosote Wrote: > I am aware that there are systems out there that have been set > up such that when an event is detected by the ALARMPROGRAM it > pages an administator. I am UK-based and would like a similar > mechanism but have the ALARMPROGRAM send a Text Message to a > mobile 'phone (porbably via email?) - any ideas anyone ? I have > no problems generating email messages from our Informix server. > I am aware that www.breathe.com (amongst others I am sure) > offers this free service but it currently needs manually entered > text - i.e. cannot be driven by an email. > We use 'smsclient' on a Linux machine with a modem attached - programs on other servers can submit messages over SSH - its *way* quicker than doing it via e-mail or whatever though saying that Genie has been getting quicker IMO ... /J\\