Once you have Nagios up and running, you may want to consider adding SMS notifications to increase the reliability of your alerting system. One of the easiest ways to do this is to use an email to SMS provider who can route email notifications from Nagios to your mobile phone as an SMS text message.
(aq) limited provides a range of SMS services, including several different email to SMS options. Their award winning system uses multiple mailservers in different physical locations, enabling high load capacity and reliability. (aq) limited has been involved in providing multiple mailserver based email routing since 1999.
Service Features
Delivery to network notification (you receive an optional acknowledgement email)
Delivery to handset notification (you receive a second optional email when the message has been received by the phone)
Choose from 3 different mechanisms of email-to-sms (open sending, pre-defined and distribution)
Set originator on a per-message basis (include orig=... in the subject line)
Integration With Nagios
A sample shell script that sends notification messages using aql's services can be found here.
Signup Bonus For Nagios Users
Signup Bonus For Nagios Users! Nagios users can receive 50
free credits when signing up for aql.com messaging services. In order to get this discount, you need to send an email to and mention that you would like to receive the Nagios user credit.
and mention that you would like to receive the Nagios user credit.