[AusNOG] Network Monitoring via Email/SMS

[Robert Hudson]

On 11 May 2014 23:05, Skeeve Stevens
<skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com>wrote:

> Why would anyone use SMS?
>
> There are loads of external monitoring services, or you could just get
> your own colo elsewhere (like I do) and have that email you.
>
> The assumption is that your email service is independent of your network
> (i.e. Gmail, etc.) or you could always setup a secondary email account on
> your device specifically for monitoring.
>
> SMS can be expensive and there is barely any reason to use it at all.
>

There's also no guarantee of delivery on SMS.  If you must have
notification outside of email (which itself isn't guaranteed delivery
either), then you want a pager service with delivery SLAs.
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