Using Nokia Cell Phone or GSM Modem to send sms's

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Wed, December 24, 2014 1:35 am, Shane Ambler wrote:
> On 22/12/2014 18:25, Godfrey Hamshire wrote:
>>
>> Using Nokia Cell Phone or GSM Modem to send sms's
>>
>> Dear Memeber
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone has had experience with connecting a 3g/gsm of
>> the type you can find in Cell Phone Shops to freebsd or a old nokia
>> symbian cell phone via its usb cable to freebsd.
>>
>> What I would like to to do is send sms's from the server using a 3g/gsm
>> dongle or using an old nokia symbian cell ie warning the power is out
>> etc etc I am doing this already via email and a clickatel api account
>> already but sometimes these email do not get through or what ever. I am
>> looking for alternative ways of notifying myself of power problems or
>> what ever is going on when I am not around.
>
> Not really what your asking for but another option could be to send
> notifications from offsite - you can run a t2.micro ec2 instance at
> amazon for between $4.20 and $9.50 a month - it receives no pings in x
> minutes then have it send a message. AWS has SNS which can send mobile
> notifications, sms or email - you can send 100 sms's per month for free.
>

Another option would be to run, say, nagios instance watching your servers
situated at different location, thus independent on the power and/or
network uplink in your server room. That's what I do.

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
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