Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
Do you not have the option of using a tool like 'smssend' or just
${10digits}@${carrier} emailing?
Note that most such schemes may be cached for minutes/hours/days.
There are no guarantees re: delivery time.
There is some separate $cheme used by the "Vote now for CONTESTANT"
TV-driven nonsense.
David Lesher wrote:
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
Do you not have the option of using a tool like 'smssend' or just
${10digits}@${carrier} emailing?
Note that most such schemes may be cached for minutes/hours/days.
There are no guarantees re: delivery time.There is some separate $cheme used by the "Vote now for CONTESTANT"
TV-driven nonsense.
The other side of this besides the delayed receiving of messages is with monitoring you want to get the alerts even if your network is down and unable to send via email to your pager, cellphone, etc. Having an out of band method to get those alerts out on criticial alerts is paramount. I've used Nagios for many years but unfortunately have never worked with sending through Verizon. I've had decent experience using Sprint's gateways sending to my phone with minimal delay.
The other side of this besides the delayed receiving of messages is
with monitoring you want to get the alerts even if your network is down
and unable to send via email to your pager, cellphone, etc. Having an
out of band method to get those alerts out on criticial alerts is
paramount. I've used Nagios for many years but unfortunately have never
worked with sending through Verizon. I've had decent experience using
Sprint's gateways sending to my phone with minimal delay.
Our solution, crufty as it might be, was that our monitoring
server has a modem on it. As long as the pots lines are up, we just
have it ring the on-call cell phone. When you see the caller ID, you
know its time to get to a terminal. Usually our 10digit@verizon would
follow 10-15 seconds later.
Tuc/TBOH
Our monitoring server lives in a physically (and geographically) separate data center. We've used the SMS Gateway services like usa.bulksms.com, but we've found that number@vtext.com is very effective and just as reliable.
Matthew Evans, MCSA
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