RE: Telephone Alerts

Optus here will provide you with software for free and a $150 connection charge that gives you an SMS gateway of your own you needed a modem and line for it if I remember right. It then just costs for each message delivered. You can then send email to it or I think some of the monitoring tools like Tivoli and Openview have a native type interface to it for ending messages. So you might just like to get in touch with your mobile carrier

 One great feature for this was the ability to build groups so you could send messages to multiple phones, good for escalation stuff.

Cheers

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Simon,

Working with a tools company that provides a monitoring tool for Oracle - 
we
have had a lot of call for sending alerts to SMS. We've done a fair bit of
testing of various SMS providers in the UK so that we can try to recommend 
a
valid solution to our customers - that is able to alert a user with a
consistently good response time. The "norm" is to use an "SMS gateway",
where you send a standard email to a an SMS Gateway provider - who then
forward that email in SMS form to your mobile phone. We've tried various
people such as Genie (BT's) now called mmo2, http://www.uboot.com,
http://www.iobox.com etc. etc. all of which have had poor response times at
various times in the day due to user traffic..

There is also the possibility of getting tools that people have pre-built 
to
send SMS from a desktop - or server.. Many of these are pretty good in GUI
form, but when it comes to command line support, they are usually very
lacking to none - and let's face it if we wanted to use it, or if you 
wanted
to call it from a shell type script you *need* command line support.. And 
if
there is command line support - most of the time these are made by people 
in
other countries, and don't seem to support our UK service providers such 
as
Orange, One-2-One, and to a slightly lesser extent Vodafone.

If we are asked to provide SMS alerts for our tools, we now point our
customers to a company called Textforce (http://www.textforce.net) which is
actually supposed to be a targeted marketing type site for sending 
marketing
SMS messages. It's a "pay per message" provider - with each SMS being 
around
7-8 pence.. The only reason we actually recommend to our customers that 
they
use this site - is that throughout our entire testing, this site provided
response times (from the time the email was sent, to the time the SMS was
received) of between 30 seconds - 4 minutes consistently! Many of the 
other
providers, such as genie, or uboot et al have greatly differing response
times - from 20 seconds right up to 14 hours!

I'd still be interested though if anybody has any experience with server
based tools that are available (for things such as Sun, HP, AIX, NT/2000)
that do have command line support, and also support the major UK 
providers..

HTH

Mark



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Some mobile network providers make use of email gateway for sms. In that
case you have some email address which is redirected by your provider to
your phone.

Alexandre
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We have some UNIX batch processes that send us e-mails when they have
finished.

Does anyone have any experience of sending a SMS message to a mobile 
phone?


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