how to send a sms with redhat

[Josh Miller]

Manuel Aróstegui wrote:
> El mié, 08-07-2009 a las 14:53 +0200, Daniel Carrillo escribió:
>> 2009/7/8 ESGLinux <esggrupos at gmail.com>:
>>> Hi all,
>>> Do you know any way to send a sms to a cellular phone.
>>>
>>> I´m monitoring a server and I want to send a sms whet the server is down
>>>
>>> I´m using RHEL 5.3 and I don´t know if it comes with a software to do thist
>>> task.
>> We are using gnokii with a Siemens MC35 GSM modem, working fine.
> 
> Yep, we use gnokii too with a small script which sends the SMS with a
> certain text depending on the alert.
> 
> Manuel.

Do you find this to be much more reliable than sending via email to the 
providers network?

Just curious as to why you're not using the email version of the phone 
number instead.  Also, I use a vendor who is a SMS gateway to deliver to 
customer's hand-sets but only because it provides visibility down to the 
hand-set level and gives us much greater deliverability.  This is 
overkill for server notifications (depending on provider) but adding for 
information purposes.

Thanks,
-- 
Josh Miller, RHCE/VCP
Seattle, WA
Linux Solutions Provider
Website:  http://itsecureadmin.com/