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AT&T's blue network SMS<->SMTP off the air
- Subject: AT&T's blue network SMS<->SMTP off the air
- From: aaron at heyaaron.com (Aaron C. de Bruyn)
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:24:45 -0700
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
On 2010-06-16 at 23:26:30 -0700, John Todd wrote:
> To those of you who may rely upon AT&T to deliver your email-to-SMS
> messages for monitoring: some of you may be currently out of luck.
Who uses email-to-SMS to monitor critical infrastructure?
IMO, it's bad practice for your notification path to use the very
path you are monitoring for problems--plus there really isn't an
acknowledgement of delivery with email-to-SMS.
I get more reliability out of an alpha-numeric pager and snppsend then I
get with email-to-SMS--plus when SNPP fails, I can easily detect the failure
(try figuring that out with email-to-SMS) and have Icinga pick up a
physically attached modem and dial.
-A