ron
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This is not a DB question - but I thought the wise people in this forum may be able to help me.
We have several Progress DBs serving users 24x7 in different countries. Admins are not always on-site and if a problem happens we need to alert people. This is done now with email - but that's not good enough. We used to have an arrangement with our telco to send SMS alerts - but they stopped the service a few months ago. Now I want to implement an equivalent facility.
There are many companies offering an email-to-SMS service - but that is also not good enough: maybe the fault that needs to be reported has also clobbered the email service.
I have a laptop where I've installed Ubuntu. I thought that I could easily hook it into our LAN to catch alerts - and send SMSs using a GSM device plugged-into a USB slot. I downloaded the "gammu" package (which supports sending/receiving SMSs) - but although I can communicate with the GSM device to get its ID - I can't get sending to work. I've tried posting queries on Ubuntu forums - but get no help.
So ... this must be an issue some of you have had to solve. Have you implemented an SMS alert system? What did you use to do it?
Ron.
We have several Progress DBs serving users 24x7 in different countries. Admins are not always on-site and if a problem happens we need to alert people. This is done now with email - but that's not good enough. We used to have an arrangement with our telco to send SMS alerts - but they stopped the service a few months ago. Now I want to implement an equivalent facility.
There are many companies offering an email-to-SMS service - but that is also not good enough: maybe the fault that needs to be reported has also clobbered the email service.
I have a laptop where I've installed Ubuntu. I thought that I could easily hook it into our LAN to catch alerts - and send SMSs using a GSM device plugged-into a USB slot. I downloaded the "gammu" package (which supports sending/receiving SMSs) - but although I can communicate with the GSM device to get its ID - I can't get sending to work. I've tried posting queries on Ubuntu forums - but get no help.
So ... this must be an issue some of you have had to solve. Have you implemented an SMS alert system? What did you use to do it?
Ron.