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RE: Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days)
From: "Darryl Dunkin" <ddunkin () netos net>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:37:39 -0700
Yes, this is still a good route for those of us with old pagers (cell/pager via e-mail have had horrendous drop rates for me, likely due to the volume of messages). If the network issue is severe enough that your Internet access is not working, you can still dial via a modem. Even then things don't always get through the provider, so I have two Nagios systems running in tandem. This means receiving two notices for each outage, but often enough we still only receive one (even though each Nagios/qpage server reports a success on both sides). -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of David Ulevitch Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:00 To: nanog () merit edu Subject: Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days) We've noticed that 1234567890 () vtext com is no longer a very reliable form of delivery for alerts from Nagios, et al. It seems as our volume of alerts has risen, our delivery rate has dropped precipitously. We don't expect much trying to actually reach a postmaster for vtext.com so I thought the better question would be to ask what the current best practice is to get SMS alerts out? Back in the day, I remember a company I worked for had something called a TAP gateway. Is that still a good route? I've also been told to check out an SMS gateway/api service called clickatell.com -- anyone using them to delivering timely notifications? Is the best thing to do to try and get a programmable cellphone in a datacenter? What else are operators doing to get the pages out when things go wonky? -David
Current thread:
- Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days) David Ulevitch (Apr 16)
- RE: Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days) Randy Epstein (Apr 16)
- RE: Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days) Derrick Bennett (Apr 16)
- Re: Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days) Patrick Shoemaker (Apr 16)
- Re: Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days) Dominic J. Eidson (Apr 16)
- RE: Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days) Peter Kranz (Apr 16)
- Re: Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days) Andrey Gordon (Apr 16)
- RE: Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days) Darryl Dunkin (Apr 16)
- Re: Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days) David Coulson (Apr 16)
- Re: Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days) Deepak Jain (Apr 16)
- RE: Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days) Frank Bulk - iNAME (Apr 16)
- Re: Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days) Deepak Jain (Apr 16)
- Re: Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days) Duane Wessels (Apr 17)
- RE: Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days) Randy Epstein (Apr 16)