Hello, i am trying to work out how i would use a routerboard 411 with a vodafone simcard so when the unit pings a set of ip addresses (via eth0) it will then send a text (via 3g card) if one of the units goes down for more then 5 pings in a row.
it does not need to be flash just in text needs to say when and what unit is down, possible to send to more then one number?
Thank you for any help possible.
You can use /tool netwatch to monitor an IP address and if it becomes unavailable you can run a certain script, then when it’s back online you can run another script.
Create a script, smth like “GW_DOWN” and make a script that sends sms to you, should be fairly simple. If you need to send to multiple numbers, just create multiple send-actions in the script.
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Tools/Sms
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Scripting
Thank you this has helped me a lot. i could not find any info online.