Sending an SMS requires time, between 5-7 seconds. This means that if you have to write a lot of SMS’s, you have to attach more than one SMS gateway to your server to be able to send them within a certain time frame. This is possible using the USB connection of the SMS gateway. As…
Read MoreLast time I wrote about how you can have incoming SMS messages sent to the Tornado Engine so that you can make Tornado Rules to process them. This time I’d like to show you a real use case where we check whether the SMS Gateway is really working or not by sending an SMS to…
Read MoreMost physical NetEye servers have an SMS Gateway attached in order to send CRITICAL notifications via an SMS message, since this will work even when the main network is down. However, sometimes you just want to send messages to your NetEye server’s SMS Gateway in order to effect certain actions, for example just to check…
Read MoreAs perhaps all NetEye users who have already used NetEye 3 know, NetEye 3 included the SMS Tools module. This simple module allowed a user to send SMS messages via a connected SMS gateway. These weren’t the usual monitoring alarms, but simple messages that were to be sent to various cell phones. Contacts could be…
Read MoreMonitoring needs to take place wherever data is collected, which may not always be right next to your NetEye server. If you have poor signal reception, or else you’re running on a virtual machine, and you need 24×7 availability, notification via SMS may be the only option. Sometimes you just can’t run a serial cable…
Read MoreSometimes it is not so visible how many SMS are sent by a NetEye Server and to whom. So it could be a good idea to give the sms-send-protocol file to the Log Management and to include it into the Elasticsearch Index. Then you may create a Dashboard in Kibana to show the usage of your…
Read MoreChi controlla i controllori?Con questo non voglio certo discutere come Giovenale sui costumi romani, ma presentare un nuovo strumento che darà maggior sicurezza all’appliance NetEye.La nuova funzionalità si occupa di tenere sotto controllo lo stato di NetEye. Qualora l’Appliance non desse più segni di vita, si attiva in automatico l’invio di SMS di emergenza per…
Read MoreChi usa Nagios sa che uno delle funzionalità essenziali é la notificazione su problemi critici. Normalmente si usa l’email o SMS come sistema di notificazione, specialmente in ambiente dove un GSM Modem é presente come nel caso di NetEye in qui il GSM Modem é attaccato direttamente all’Appliance. Aver collegato il GSM Modem direttamente all’Appliance…
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