...on Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:28:00AM +0200, Stefan Rothenb?hler wrote:
I'm more searching a hardware solution (to be independent of connectivity to the internet which can also fail).
We used a Siemens M20 (basically a GSM phone in a box with external power supply and RS232 interface), and a contract for high-volume SMS. I'm not shure if that's still in production, but there should be followup products.
As it mostly uses the more or less standardized GSM extensions to the AT command set, it's not difficult to find software to drive it - but I think we had a custom solution (bunch of perl scripts) to send SMS from Nagios and from the commandline through it.
Data connections should also work fine, I think many people used it as emergency dialin at remote locations.
Alex.