Hello

Per Jessen schrieb:

Philip Iezzi wrote:

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TAP/UCP protocol, attached ISDN-Modem

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It's a little expensive if you have many SMS'es - does anyone know who to contact (e.g. at Swisscom) to get a package-deal with a direct TCP interface?

There's a service provider called "aspsms" we used in the company I worked before. AFAIK they provide direct socket connections and reasonable costs. Probably you find their website in Google.

Regards Peter

Patrick Feisthammel wrote:

http://www.aspsms.ch/instruction/prices.asp

They provide also a webservice interface which is very easy to use. A plus: reports about successful delivery of the sms.

I can give you a perl and php client example which works with aspsms, if you are interested.

Yes, that would be interesting - according to aspsms.ch:

"ASPSMS allows you to send SMS over the TCP/IP protocol from any program that can use ActiveX/OLE components" ...

We can't do ActiveX, but a command line php client would be quite useful.

On 8/3/07, Per Jessen per.jessen@enidan.ch wrote:

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We can't do ActiveX, but a command line php client would be quite useful.

never mind, I've just found their email interface:

http://www.aspsms.com/smtp/

Their XML Interface is working well too. If you plan to use SMS to monitor critical systems, don't forget that using a 3rd party service adds several layers for possible errors.

While aspsms is very reliable in general, I have had cases where their servers didn't respond or the accepted message didn't get delivered. They offer ways to get a delivery notification, but any kind of failover mechanism has to be built into the customers software.

Adding support for a second provider (like clickatell.com) would probably be wise too.

regards

Flavio

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Hi

Daniel Kamm schrieb:

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 14:01 +0200, Peter Guhl wrote: Major drawback: If your link is broken, you won't get alarmed!

Of course.

Something like this would be nice:

if (aspsms available) send_via_aspsms else send_via_attached_gsm

That's easy to script. Start with the cheapest possibility and go over to more expensive ones if needed. 1st: A provider in the internet 2nd: A solution over normal phone lines (like the swisscom number) 3rd: GSM (GSM card, attached cellular...)

2nd and 3rd may be swapped - depending on the price. If a GSM-Solution is less expensive you can leave the Swisscom service out anyway.

I have seen (and am using) triband-cards (GSM, EDGE, GPRS...) for PCMCIA-Slots (Option Globetrotter, Merlin...). They are not only capable to send SMS but they can also establish a wireless internet link nearly everywhere in the world. If those are existing for PCI too your problem should be easy to solve. Or you consider adding a PCMCIA-Slot to the server; depends on the price, of course.

Regards Peter

Hello Reza

We use http://smslink.sourceforge.net/ with an siemens gms-modem on rs232. The software is pretty simple but dows the job. The main drawback is imo the time needed to handoff an sms to the smsc. But this seems to be a gsm-problem which cannot be circumvent when using a gsm-modem and if you are not sending out a lot of sms it does not really hurt.