How to send SMS from HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM)
HP Systems Insight Manager makes it possible
to monitor and manage heterogeneous corporate IT environments. It provides
information about the monitored systems which largely ease the work of the IT
staff. Now you can improve the properties of your HP SIM software if you add
SMS functionality to it. In this way the information provided by HP SIM can be
sent to mobile phones as SMS messages. To achieve this function you need an SMS
gateway such as Ozeki NG SMS Gateway. Ozeki NG SMS
Gateway is a software product
that can be installed on your computer. It forwards SMS messages to the mobile
network either with a GSM modem attached to the computer or it directly connects
to the SMS center of the mobile service provider over the Internet. If you
implement Ozeki NG SMS Gateway to forward error reports as SMS messages, you
will get a well-functioning and stable SMS system. In this article you can learn
more about this solution.
For step by step instructions on how to setup this solution,
please visit the following webpage:
Installation
guide on how to add SMS functionality to HP Systems Insight Manager
( Video tutorial included).
Fields of applications
Today administrators have to face with the complexity and
difficulty of managing multiple applications and platforms in an integrated
corporate IT environment. Though a well-structured monitoring and management
software can ease their work, it is still difficult for them to perform
satisfactorily. In organizations there is a common need to increase performance
and productivity while the availability of the IT network should also be ensured.
HP SIM is able to monitor your system and helps manage it from a central console.
If an error occurs in your system, HP SIM will detect this failure. Your system
works excellently up to this point. Now it also needs to ensure that
notifications about these errors will be forwarded to the intended person. In
this way this person can intervene immediately. To be able to do so, he has to
get this notification in real time.
The solution is if you add SMS functionality to your HP
Systems Insight Manager. This SMS functionality ensures that notification
messages will be forwarded to predefined mobile phone numbers. In this way you
can be sure that error notifications are sent to the intended person who can
take the necessary steps immediately. Therefore matters can be solved before
they affect your business processes or before your customers and partners notice
these events. To achieve these excellent functions you need to setup an SMS
system based on a stable and powerful SMS gateway software such as
Ozeki NG SMS Gateway. With the implementation
of this solution you can ensure a well-structured system in your corporate IT
environment based on SMS technology.
Benefits
If you decide to implement SMS technology into your existing
corporate IT system you will gain several advantages of it. HP SIM assures
availability of your corporate IT systems and provides a centralized view of
your enterprise. Ozeki NG SMS Gateway ensures SMS functionality to your system
to further improve the availability and performance in your organization. This
integration helps proactively react to potential system failures, even if these
failures are real or predicted ones. Moreover, the intended people will be
alarmed in real time so they can intervene immediately. The management also can
be informed with SMS messages about the events and status of the IT system even
if they are on the move. All in all, this solution increases fail-safe operation
time, improves server performance and save valuable time and money.
Prerequisites
In order to setup this solution you need to find a way
to connect your system to the mobile network. You can do this
by using an Internet connection or you can
setup a wireless connection by attaching a GSM phone/GSM modem to your computer. To help you make a
decision, we have prepared a webpage for you:
Internet based SMS connections vs. GSM modem based (wireless) SMS connections.
Depending
on what you select, you need the following prerequisites.
Prerequisites for Internet based connection to the Mobile network
If you wish to connect your system to an SMS service
provider over the Internet you need the following components:
Figure 1/a - Prerequisites for Ozeki NG SMS
Gateway IP SMS connection
In this case you need to find an SMS service
provider who can reach the mobile phones in your area. This SMS
service provider should be able to provide SMS service through
the Internet. To find such a provider, you can check our
website where we list some of them:
SMPP SMS Service providers.
Once you have found such a provider, you need to sign up for
their service to get the connection parameters. You can use these parameters
to configure your Ozeki NG SMS Gateway software.
Prerequisites for wireless (GSM modem) connection to the Mobile network
If you wish to connect your system to the mobile
network wirelessly, you need a GSM modem or GSM phone, that you
can attach to your computer with a data cable. In this case your Ozeki
NG SMS Gateway software will operate this phone and will send and receive
SMS messages wirelessly. To setup this connection method, you need the following
components:
Figure 1/b - Prerequisites for Ozeki NG SMS
Gateway GSM modem connection
Your checklist (for GSM modem connection):
*The SIM card will come with a plan, that will
determine how much money you will spend on each SMS.
System architecture
After you browse our checklist above and make sure that you
meet with all the requirements, you can start to setup this solution that will
work as follows: If an error occurs in your IT network, HP SIM will detect this
failure. In HP SIM there is an "Automatic Event Handling Task" that will process
the error. In this rule you need to pre-define some criteria (for example, the
system is not available). If this criterion is met during processing the error,
the created custom tool will be executed. This will automatically open the
directory of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway and execute SendSMS.exe file with the
necessary parameters. This SendSMS.exe file ensures the connection with Ozeki NG
SMS Gateway. The SMS software will process the file and sends the SMS message
to the given mobile phones. It forwards the SMS messages to the mobile
network either with the help of a GSM modem attached to the computer or it
directly connects to the SMS center of the mobile service provider. Figure 1.
demonstrates an overview of this solution and the basic inter-operation of the
components.
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Figure 2 - Ozeki NG SMS Gateway - solution
for how to send SMS from HP Systems Insight Manager
Please note that the GSM modem connection is recommended as
it is more secure and reliable than sending SMS messages over the Internet using
IP SMS connection.
How to implement this solution
To send SMS from HP SIM with the help of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway
you need to do the follows: First you need to enter HP SIM to configure it for
sending SMS messages. You need to create a new custom tool. This tool will
execute SendSMS.exe file of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway. If it is done you need to
create an "Automatic Event Handling Task" for handling incoming events
automatically. Here you can also set the criteria of the execution of custom
tool. A detailed installation guide with video tutorials and step by step
setup instructions will be provided on the following website:
Setup instructions on how to add SMS functionality
to HP SIM.
Conclusion
To summarize the above mentioned, HP Systems Insight Manager
with Ozeki NG SMS Gateway is the best solution if you want to maximize the
availability and performance of your IT network; and minimize downtime costs
and end-user impact. SMS functionality helps increase the excellent properties
of HP SIM therefore, the implementation of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway will result in
a well-functioning, stable and effective SMS system in your company. With this
solution you can save time and money while you get the highest quality.
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