Re: sms messaging without a net?

From: Patrick Muldoon (no email)
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 11:58:24 EDT


On Tuesday 03 August 2004 05:17 am, Dan Hollis wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to send SMS messages without an internet
> connection?
>
> Having a network monitoring system send sms pages via email very quickly
> runs into chicken-egg scenario. How do you email a page to let the admins
> know their net has gone down. :-P
>
> AT&T shut down their TAP dialup late last year.
>
> The only method that comes to mind is to buy a GSM modem which has SMS
> messaging capability.
>
> Has anyone done this?
>
> -Dan

We use SNPP directly to our Nextel phones. AFAIK nextel has an SNPP dialup at
NPA-NXX-NOTE where the NPA-NXX is the same as your phone number. We have
nagios due this via qpage, works like a charm.

-Patrick

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