Sms

I use Nagios for monitoring. Up to recently I used a regular modem to send sms text messages to various people when systems are going wrong. The way this works is by using smsclient which dials up to a TAP server. [TAP] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telelocator_Alphanumeric_Protocol) is a fairly archaic way of sending messages. It’s been fairly reliable however it has two major drawbacks, sending takes a long time and it’s limited to 160 characters. As far as I can tell it will not do long text messages, which are really just multiple short message combined together in a special way.