Dear Trygve,

PRTG does not support SMS Gateways itself. You might be able to achieve this with third-party tools like PageGate for example, but this (how to use/configure those) would be beyond our scope.

Best Regards.

do you have any plans on implementing this in your existing software? In my point of view this is the last piece of the puzzle thats missing to make PRTG a 10/10 product. Going about it with 3-party solutions isn't smood enough and would also cost more money to implement.

Any thoughts comments about this?

We will most likely not going to implement anything in that direction as, simply put, the variety of Mobile Providers, Cell Phones, GSM (and even the newer technologies) is way too large to cover for us. We try to cover as much as possible hardware in terms of 'monitoring stuff', but for notifications, our resources are limited.

I would like to add to this feature request for PRTG. I disagree with your assertion that your product would need to support a large variety of hardware and mobile providers. All your product need to do is to be able to sent an intialization string to a standards-compliant modem and then format the alert is SMS (which it already does) and then send the alert to the phone number in the SMS gateway. I beleive you are making it sound more complicated than it really is to add this feature. Other monitoring software has the ability to send an SMS to a gateway phone number using a standard land-line modem, I would request that PRTG add this capability too.

Thanks for your consideration,

-Rob

FYI, kere is the KB article explaing how to do it with a third-party software package http://www.paessler.com/knowledgebase/en/topic/393-how-can-i-send-sms-text-message-notifications-via-a-modem-or-a-mobile-phone-with-prtg

Additonal Note: PageGate (mentioned in the KB article) does not support 64-bit Windows server operating systems, another reason to implement this feature in PRTG. the currently listed highest level of support is Vista 32-bit. http://www.notepage.net/pagegate.htm

I agree. PRTG need to add this feature (send SMS) to his software. It is very important for any monitor software.

I do a little search and how to send sms using a standard cell phone, and it is very easy using a hyperterminal session, you only need to write 3 commands AT+CMGF=1 <ENTER> AT+CMGS="+31638740161" <ENTER> >Hello World ! <CTRL-Z> See this link: http://www.smssolutions.net/tutorials/gsm/sendsmsat/ I try with a two Cell Phones Nokia E71 and Huawei E166, but you only need your phone is installed in your modem section of the panel control, y you open the COM?? port with hyperterminal.

Guys, If you want to use SMS as a notification platform, why not use on of the many many online options. They charge anywhere between 3 to 10 cents per notification depending on carrier.

Even if you have 1000 notifications a month the cost is most likely to be <100 $ / euros. With all the other options like push notifications, tweets, mail, icq, aim options available, hooking up a cellphone to a com port seems somewhat 'behind the times' to me.