SMS FoxBox

SMS FoxBox is a Linux embedded tiny web server for SMS and MMS advanced management. Basically, it allows to handle programmatically SMS/MMS message, to serve as both direction SMS/MMS to/from email interface; it uses Linux and is rather lightweight. It also provides support for a number of DB backends as well as an advanced Web interface.

Most interesting use of the SMS FoxBox is for monitoring purposes. Using a Nagios plugin, this product can be used as alerting means, quickly and transparently sending/routing different types of notifications to and from SMS and email.

Glossary

IPHost features:

Web Server Monitoring Tool
… will allow you to estimate the time of web site availability (uptime) and inaccessibility (downtime) for the necessary period, the speed of downloading of pages, and the size of pages …

E-Mail Notifications, SMS
IPHost Network Monitor supports different methods of automatic reaction to undesirable changes on the resources and systems being monitored. The alerts are …