Re: SMS gateways

[Scott Fisher <littlefishguy () gmail com>]

I emailed smsfoxbox support asking about US network support. I am
hoping to hear back soon and I will let you all know the answer.

Thanks,
Scott

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 4:40 PM, David Hubbard
<dhubbard () dino hostasaurus com> wrote:
> Scott, I was interested in that as well, it was in my original post.  I’m considering that and the SMSEagle; both are 
> from Europe.  I can’t find too much on them from a real world war stories perspective, but there has been mention of 
> the FoxBox on nanog in years past, so there are some users out there.
>
> I am not going the Microtik+cell modem route that Faisal mentioned in his reply post because the intent is to tie the 
> SMS alerting into other systems using some form of API, and both FoxBox and SMSEagle make that incredibly easy by 
> having a simple http interface for sending texts, or a full API if you need to do two way.  The nagios plugin (and 
> Zabbix too) are super simple since it’s just HTTP POST to send the alerts.
>
> FoxBox claims it will work on Verizon networks because of the 3G support, but that doesn’t leave me with a 
> comfortable feeling, so if we buy in, we’d probably get accounts from a GSM carrier for it, although I can’t find 
> whether or not AT&T, etc. offer machine accounts, and I would not want to pay $50/mo per device just to send random 
> texts.
>
> I did get an off list reply from someone who let me know that our existing OpenGear devices (cell+ethernet console 
> servers that run linux) have the ability to send SMS using a utility already present in the OS install.  Since we 
> already have those in every location we’d also be putting an SMS gateway, I’m going to investigate if we could put a 
> cgi script or something similar on them to accomplish the same goal with no additional equipment.
>
> David
>
>
>
>
> On 1/7/16, 3:34 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Scott Fisher" <nanog-bounces () nanog org on behalf of littlefishguy () gmail 
> com> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone having experience getting this to work on US networks?
> >
> > http://www.smsfoxbox.it/en/foxbox-lx800-gateway-100.html/
> >
> > I am interested on getting this working with our Nagios notifications.
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:40 PM, John Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:
> > > > Thanks for those pointers. The "mega bill" problem is one I have to avoid. We used to use ISDN as backup to T1 
> > > > circuits,
> > > > but had to abandon that after some wayward fail-overs resulted in $5000 phone bills. I'll check the plan overage 
> > > > terms
> > > > carefully!
> > >
> > > Sounds like an excellent application for a $10/mo prepaid plan on
> > > something like Tracfone.  If disaster strikes and you need a lot of
> > > data one month, you can add extra credit directly from the phone.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Scott



-- 
Scott