Sending Sms Messages

Remote Manager sends SMS requests to registered devices using the SCI (Server Command Interface) web service, and the messages are handled in a manner similar to RCI (Remote Command Interface) messages.

• For more information on SCI, see SCI (Server command interface).
• For more information on RCI, see RCI (Remote Command Interface).

To send an SMS message using the Remote Manager SCI web service, specify the message as a child of the of the SCI <send_message> operation using the tag as a child element. Remote Manager creates a job for each web services request, and the job can be synchronous or asynchronous. You can retrieve Remote Manager job results the same way as you retrieve results for RCI jobs.

Send message options and SMS messages

Use the following <send_message> options to control how Remote Manager handles SMS message requests:

• synchTimeout = “xxx” Behavior is identical to existing SCI requests.
• reply = “all | errors | none” Controls whether a reply is sent by the device back to the server for a command. Using this option, you can control the number of Remote Manager SMS messages directly sent. The default is none. Note that all and errors work the same way for all SCI requests, including SMS message requests.
• cache = “true | false | only” Remote Manager does not currently service SMS requests from the cache. Therefore, specifying only returns an error. In addition, true or false result in the request being sent to the device. The default is false.