3rd party SMS service is a service that enables to send SMS messages from Miradore to mobile devices over mobile networks.
In Miradore, 3rd party SMS service is used for sending security actions to mobile devices without any delay. In addition, the 3rd party SMS service is used in Miradore for sending alert messages by Miradore's event monitoring feature.
At simplest, 3rd party SMS service is a cellular modem connected to a PC or server and an appropriate software to send SMS messages. Usually an external SMS service provider is used because of reliability and ease of operation. Also most local solutions require an USB connection for the modem and that is problematic in virtual server environments. Various SMS service providers can be found just searching the web. Most of them provide at least HTTP API, some of them provide also other methods probably including a program to send messages. At the moment Miradore supports only a sender program method, but an example vbscript to send messages through HTTP API is provided on the support site.
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