[ale] Off Topic: Sort Of

[kaboom at oobleck.net (Chris Ricker)]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Mike Fletcher wrote:

> Back a job ago when I set up nagios I had it use the email  
> notification (which pretty much worked straight out of the box) to  
> send alerts to phone#@mobileprovider.com (whatever their email-to-sms  
> gateway address format was).  That also had the benefit of not  
> requiring a modem and phone line just for sending out notifications.

It also has the "benefit" of not being able to page you to let you know 
that your infrastructure (email server, switches, whatever -- depends on 
your environment) needed to email phone#@mobileprovider.com is down ;-)

later,
chris