Email2SMS, Alert2SMS, Text2SMS, and SNMP2SMS
VisualGSM
Enterprise Series Add-ons for VisualGSM Mobile
Application Server (Enterprise Series) adds Email-2-SMS,
new Email Alert by SMS for multiple
Email accounts, Text-2-SMS, and SNMP-2-SMS capability
to your VisualGSM Enterprise Server installation.
Email-2-SMS Service
Enables your VisualGSM Enterprise Server to act as
a common Email-to-SMS conversion
gateway, converting Email messages to SMS
messages on-the-fly.
Useful for:
1. SMS-enabling Enterprise/Resource Monitoring
and Surveillance software that can send out alerts
in email messages.
2. Allows personnel, members of a club or students
to send messages from their email client, e.g.
Outlook, Outlook Express, Lotus Notes, etc.
3. Allows custom web applications hosted on virtual
web hosting accounts to send SMS messages via
Email.
Email-2-SMS add-on comes with the following
configurable settings:
Email Gateway Settings
Ability to choose between POP3, SMTP(new!)
or MAPI interface.
Allows 'live' connectivity test to email interface.
Ability to set check mail interval (in seconds).
Ability to set to bypass mails exceeding a certain
size (for filtering spam mails).
Ability to set Email subject or content
as SMS message.
Ability to set Email subject or Email recipient
as SMS recipient.
SMS Message Settings
Ability to set the maximum number of SMS messages
to send for Email messages exceeding 160 characters.
every SMS message (e.g. disclaimer or company name).
Ability to append Email sender's email address
to SMS message as message footer.
Ability to set custom footer for SMS messages.
Access Rights/Security Settings
Allows SMS to be sent to either/or both pre-defined
mobile groups/phonebook users and GSM
phone numbers (or MSISDN).
Ability to filter off certain Email sender
by email address, email domains, and/or
IP address.
Receipt Confirmation Email (For Email received)
Ability to enable/disable Receipt Confirmation
Email.
Ability to set subject and message content
of Receipt Confirmation Email to Email sender.
Email Alert
by SMS Service (Alert2SMS)
Notifies Mobile Personnel by
SMS of new incoming Email messages received
at their POP3 mailboxes. Email message subject
is appended to the notification SMS message.
Useful for:
1. Improving response speed by mobile
personnel to important Emails.
2. Allowing group notification of Email
received on a particular Email account.
Alert-2-SMS add-on comes with the following
configurable settings:
Ability to set and test POP3 account settings
for individual users.
Ability to assign POP3 accounts being monitored
to corresponding user's mobile phone number
or to a mobile group of users.
Ability to activate/deactivate POP3 account monitoring
for individual users without deleting the user
entry.
Ability to append Email sender's email address
to SMS message as message footer.
Text-2-SMS
Service
Enables bulk upload of SMS messages
to send in text file format. This provides an efficient
method of dispatching anywhere from one to hundreds
of thousands messages at one go.
Useful for:
1. Enabling dynamic conversion of
text log generated by 3rd party applications
to SMS messages.
2. Receiving SMS notification from Unix/Mainframe
or any 3rd party applications that can export information
in text file format.
Text-2-SMS add-on comes with the following
configurable settings:
Ability to set one or more files to monitor
(UNC path supported), and how frequently a file is
checked.
Ability to set the type of delimiter (including
tab) that separates recipient and message content
in the text import file.
Ability to set the number of lines in the text
import file to parse per SMS message.
SNMP-2-SMS
Service
Enables SNMP traps to be forwarded as SMS alerts to one or more designated recipients.
The SNMP2SMS Addon allows you to forward SNMP Traps sent by SNMP agents and devices that support SNMP as SMS messages. SNMP2SMS can also obtain MIB object information such as sysDescr, sysUpTime, sysContact, sysName, sysLocation from network entity using the SNMP GET request.
Useful for:
1. Allows IT managers to receive fault and information alarms (SNMP Traps) from SNMP devices such as routers, printers, network attached storage, UPS systems, servers, etc via SMS.
2. Provides a simple SMS alert solution for managing SNMP capable devices without the need for complex setup or software.
SNMP-2-SMS add-on comes with the following
configurable settings and features:
Ability to configure recipient based on the source device sending the SNMP trap. A single recipient group or person can also be defined for all devices.
Ability to configure the format of SMS and the SNMP properties* to included in the SMS.
network entity.
Ability to request for recipt acknowledgement from the receiver.network entity.
Ability to view the historical log for the SNMP traps processed and forwarded as SMS.
*List of SNMP parameters:
{DateTime} - date/time of the trap generation
{SourceAddress} - address of the agent that generated the trap
{GenericTrap} - indicator of the generic trap
{SpecificTrap} - indicator of the enterprise specific trap
{Enterprise} - enterprise that generated the trap
{Community} - community string of the generated trap
{DeviceDescription} - a textual description of the network device
{DeviceUpTime} - the time (in hundredths of a second) since the network management portion of the device was last re-initialized
{Contact} - the textual identification of the contact person for this managed device, together with information on how to contact this person
{DeviceName} - an administratively-assigned name for this managed node. By convention, this is the device''s fully-qualified domain name
{DeviceLocation} - the physical location of this device
Note: The VisualGSM Enterprise Server comes with
SMS-2-Email, SMS-2-Text, SMS-2-CMD
and SMS-2-HTTP, HTTP-2-SMS, and
SMS-2-SQL features by default.
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