SMS Server Tools

Alarm handler

The alarm handler is a program that smsd runs whenever an error occures.

Smsd gives the following arguments to the alarmhandler:

• the keyword ALARM
• a date in the format yyyy-mm-dd
• a time in the format hh:mm:ss
• the alarm severity (1 digit number)
• the modem name or SMSD
• the alarm text

Example:

#!/bin/sh
# This is an example how to use an alarm handler with smsd.
echo SMSD alarm: $5 $6

This script displays a message for each alarm.

The book describes how to display alarms with colours for their severities in a webbrowser.