Hi, On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 09:42:58AM -0700, Jeff Shultz via Outages-discussion wrote:
With AT&T discontinuing their Email to SMS bridge and the others getting somewhat unreliable, what methods are people using to get alerts from their NMS and SNMP and other monitoring services and devices to make their phones squawk when something dies?
If I could trust my phone's gmail client to reliably notify me I might go that route, but as one of my co-workers put it, "it goes in waves."
Have a small LTE router with a SIM card that just sends out SMSs as needed, API driven... (Teltonika RUT240/241 is easy to work with) or use one of the more dedicated SMS sending services like twilio.com... The first one is more expensive but will work if your Internet is gone and you want to be notified :-) - the second is more suitable if your volume is significant and "one router with one GSM modem" is just too slow. I wouldn't ever do anything time critical relying on e-mail outside my network... gert -- "If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor." Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Gert Doering - Munich, Germany gert@greenie.muc.de