I emailed smsfoxbox support asking about US network support. I am hoping to hear back soon and I will let you all know the answer.
Thanks, Scott On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 4:40 PM, David Hubbard <dhubb...@dino.hostasaurus.com> wrote: > Scott, I was interested in that as well, it was in my original post. I’m > considering that and the SMSEagle; both are from Europe. I can’t find too > much on them from a real world war stories perspective, but there has been > mention of the FoxBox on nanog in years past, so there are some users out > there. > > I am not going the Microtik+cell modem route that Faisal mentioned in his > reply post because the intent is to tie the SMS alerting into other systems > using some form of API, and both FoxBox and SMSEagle make that incredibly > easy by having a simple http interface for sending texts, or a full API if > you need to do two way. The nagios plugin (and Zabbix too) are super simple > since it’s just HTTP POST to send the alerts. > > FoxBox claims it will work on Verizon networks because of the 3G support, but > that doesn’t leave me with a comfortable feeling, so if we buy in, we’d > probably get accounts from a GSM carrier for it, although I can’t find > whether or not AT&T, etc. offer machine accounts, and I would not want to pay > $50/mo per device just to send random texts. > > I did get an off list reply from someone who let me know that our existing > OpenGear devices (cell+ethernet console servers that run linux) have the > ability to send SMS using a utility already present in the OS install. Since > we already have those in every location we’d also be putting an SMS gateway, > I’m going to investigate if we could put a cgi script or something similar on > them to accomplish the same goal with no additional equipment. > > David > > > > > On 1/7/16, 3:34 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Scott Fisher" > <nanog-boun...@nanog.org on behalf of littlefish...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>Does anyone having experience getting this to work on US networks? >> >>http://www.smsfoxbox.it/en/foxbox-lx800-gateway-100.html/ >> >>I am interested on getting this working with our Nagios notifications. >> >>On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:40 PM, John Levine <jo...@iecc.com> wrote: >>>>Thanks for those pointers. The "mega bill" problem is one I have to avoid. >>>>We used to use ISDN as backup to T1 circuits, >>>>but had to abandon that after some wayward fail-overs resulted in $5000 >>>>phone bills. I'll check the plan overage terms >>>>carefully! >>> >>> Sounds like an excellent application for a $10/mo prepaid plan on >>> something like Tracfone. If disaster strikes and you need a lot of >>> data one month, you can add extra credit directly from the phone. >>> >> >> >> >>-- >>Scott -- Scott
