Mass SMS

[Joshua Bell]

Hello,

This is just my two cents.  However, when we used the 'BB' suite here, it turned
out to be what I consider shoddy at best.  The user interface does not look all
that appealing to start off.

I have found that the best resource for this type of activity, is to use Nagios
with their plug-ins.  It is a little bit harder to get started with, however,
http://www.nagiosconfig.com makes life a lot easier.

This product is just a lot more robust than 'BB', and you could easily acheive
the mass SMS that you desire with a simple command definition.

----
Joshua Bell - <josh@ oplink.net>

On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:52:50 +0200
Emre Bastuz <info at emre.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I know that it is possible to configure BigBrother (http://bb4.org) in such a
> way.
> 
> BB is basically a software to monitor the availability/reachability of IP
> addresses, services, processes, etc..
> 
> In case of an outage you configure it to send a mail (maybe to tome mail2sms
> gateway?).
> 
> If you take a look at the software description at http://bb4.org/features.html
> there´s somethin about SMS at "Notification", so some kind of "native" SMS
> delivery also seems possible.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Emre
> 
> Zitat von Odhiambo Washington <wash at wananchi.com>:
> 
> >
> > I have a few hundred VIP clients (yes, some are more VIP than others)
> > who I'd like to notify, via SMS, whenever we have any network problem
> > and also immediately such a
> > problem is resolved.
> >
> > What I'm looking for is some software that I can use to do this,
> > within FreeBSD. I hope one of the experts in this area has done
> > one so I don't have to wait for the invention.
> > `make search key=sms` from within the ports did give some apps,
> > but I did not see one that is capable of looking at a database
> > of contact numbers and sending that one sms to all of them.
> > Of course I do expect a reply/delivery report after sending the sms.
> >
> > Any good pointers will be appreciated.
> >
> >
> > -Wash
> >
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