Hostmonitor Alerting via URL to send SMS

Marcel · Post by **Marcel** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:40 am

Hello KS-Soft/Alex,

Question: i have a lot of servers to monitor and would like to get in certain cases an SMS message.

I have an account at voipbuster and can receive SMS messages from this service.
Now, when i have a test in hostmon i want the hostmon when test result is failed to do this URL: "https://myaccount.voipbuster.com/clx/se ... 456789&to= 00316123456789&text=server 1 is down" , but this doesn't work.

I get this as a reply in log:
Error: Cannot send data to https://myaccount.voipbuster.com/clx/se ... ext=server 1 is down (TCP port 80). Valid name, no data record of requested type

How can i do this?

(Please note that all usernames and phonenumbers are scrambled)

Please Help, thanks a lot if this can work!
Regards,
Marcel.

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:20 am

Sorry this cannot work because "HTTP request" action does not support HTTPS requests. Only HTTP

Regards
Alex

Marcel · Post by **Marcel** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:45 am

Nooooo... only http, no luck for me.

Thanks for your quick reply, will search for another option or try to get it in http.

Regards,
Marcel

Yoorix · Post by **Yoorix** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 5:06 am

Marcel wrote:Thanks for your quick reply, will search for another option or try to get it in http.

I would suggest you to use "Execute External program" action in conjunction with some third party utility, that is able to send HTTP/HTTPS requests, like wget. Wget for Windows is available here: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm

papalima · Post by **papalima** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:07 am

Hi,

Is a https action on your the Hostmonitor roadmap?

When no:
Is there another way how to send a sms via http?
(Since voipbuster only uses https)

Regards,
PL

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:46 am

Is a https action on your the Hostmonitor roadmap?

Looks like nobody asked about such option before... I can add "low priority" task into "to do" list.

Is there another way how to send a sms via http?

There other ways to send SMS without HTTP. HostMonitor supports SMPP protocol. Also it can send SMS using GSM modem (cell phone).
http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/mfra ... htm#actSMS
http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/mfra ... tm#actsmpp

Regards
Alex