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Exploring Gammu - An open source mobile phone communication library

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A few weeks back, while working on Twinstrata project (as a shadow resource), I had some spare time and I wondered if I could provide an SMS notification (in addition to email notification) whenever Nagios detected that the services on the production cluster are down. Hence, I started searching different communication libraries and found Gammu, an open source mobile phone communication library. Below are the steps I took to install Gammu on Linux (CentOS 7) and generate SMS notifications to the development team through it.  First, I had to find a spare mobile phone that could be used for this purpose and a SIM card. I had one Samsung GT-S3653W mobile phone which I wasn't using anymore ever since I bought the smartphone. One of the reasons why I chose Gammu instead of any other library (e.g Gnokki) was their database that indicated that GT-S3653 ( http://wammu.eu/phones/samsung/5152/ ) was compatible with this library. For installation, I downloaded Gammu (version 1.34.0) t