Kannel monitoring tool - Ruby Gem

Over the past few months, I have been facing many issues with the Kannel SMS gateway. Sometimes SMS messages get queued up, and at other times the SMSC goes into a reconnecting stage. I searched for a tool to monitor Kannel status, but unfortunately, I didn't find one that could monitor and send alerts. So I decided to write a tool to monitor Kannel activities.

kannel_monitor 0.0.2

This gem will monitor:

• Kannel status
• Kannel sms queue
• SMSC status
• SMSC queue and will send email alerts when something goes wrong.

Just install the gem on your server using:

gem install kannel_monitor

Run the monitoring activity using the command:

kannel_monitor 'path to kannel_monitor.yml'

Example of yml file is given here.

You need to set up a cron job to run this at specific intervals. If an SMSC is in a permanent reconnection stage and you don't want to monitor that SMSC, you can skip that particular SMSC by adding it to sms_to_be_skipped.