[Outages-discussion] Re: Email to SMS is dead (or nearly so)... long live - what?

Once upon a time, Paul M - outages <paul+outages@mansfield.co.uk> said:

The problem was the box was in the same datacentre as all the equipment. the whole district lost power, the UPSs ran dry, the backup generators failed and so when the power went out we were not alerted as there was no external monitoring.

We used a USB modem for SMS as well... and had a separate 2U rack-mount UPS just for the monitoring server. -- Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>