FoxBox G25 EasyG2

Realtime network systems monitoring and alerting via SMS

A Linux monitoring server with additional SMS management features, designed to be easily integrated with your IT infrastructure (include custom developments, aided by our Support Team). The internal monitoring engine is powered by the well known Nagios Core. Moreover with the custom integration of USB sensors the device will be able to check not just the IT infrastructure, but also the environment in which it has been installed.

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Main hardware features

• 100% solid state hardware in just 105x110x45mm;
• ATMEL AT91SAM9G25 400MHz 32bit CPU;
• 256MB of RAM DDR2;
• MicroSD solid state memory (4GB);
• Quad band GSM Quectel modem;
• External antenna with 2.5mt cable;
• LCD display (resolution 16x2);
• SMS/MMS communications using a common SIM card;
• Incoming transmission rate up to 30 SMS/min;
• Outgoing transmission rate up to 20 SMS/min;
• Serial debug port embedded;
• Three USB 2.0 ports;
• Internal clock with backup battery and NTP support;
• High computational power with low energy consumes;
• Noisless (thanks to its passive cooling system).

Main software features

• Debian Linux embedded OS (ver. Squeeze);
• Lighttpd embedded web server;
• SQLite embedded database server;
• Nagios Core monitoring server;
• Double alert channel for Nagios, SMS and email, for not losing even a single one;
• Fully featured Web Interface for device management;
• All pages customizable with XSL and CSS;
• Fully integrated SMS management;
• EMAILtoSMS and SMStoEMAIL gateway;
• Fully customizable software using PHP, Perl, C, Bash, ecc.;
• Expandable set of gateway functions;
• MYSQL client for database submissions;
• ODBC compliant, to easily access internal database.

EasyG2 FoxBox G25  is a compact and low cost Linux-based server to monitor network devices in realtime, using a Nagios engine, also able to send and receive general purpose SMS messages using a commercial SIM card.

EasyG2 FoxBox offers basically the same features of the others FoxBox, as a Web server with a fully-featured web interface to manage SMS services. Furthermore, it works as a monitoring server with a web interface showing all the features available in Nagios, and a dedicated system to collect all the alerts and instantaneously send them via SMS to the contacts defined in configuration files (it is still available the default behavior, sending alerts via email channel to pc, smartphones, ecc.).

Lastly, it is available the USB sensors integration, to connect various kind of sensors (temperature, humidity, presence, ecc.) thus giving the possibility to instantly check the environmental situation in realtime.

Moreover, EasyG2 FoxBox G25 also provides advanced sending tools, like time-scheduled sendings and auto-replies.

FoxBox GUI features

• Read and write SMS;
• Polls on incoming SMS texts (to perform contents analysis);
• Advanced phonebook management (groups, CSV imports, ecc.);
• SMS messages broadcasting;
• Easy system configuration;
• Integrated editor for custom scripts to process messages;
• System logs and DBMS interface.

Nagios GUI features

• Access to Nagios engine parameters;
• Current status monitoring of hosts and services with maps and performance indices;
• Step-by-step report creations;
• Scheduling management.

Gateway features

• SMS to/from email;
• SMS to/from MySQL;
• SMS to/from web script (PHP, ASP, JSP, ecc.);
• SMS to/from Microsoft Outlook;
• SMS to/from Microsft Access;
• SMS to/from Macromedia Flash animation;
• SMS to/from desktop Widgets (MAC X OS, Windows, Linux);
• SMS to/from Postfix.

Application fields

The ones specific for this version:

• Realtime control over all the hosts and services of the core business;
• Remote network devices monitoring, needing just a mobile phone to receive alerts when something goes wrong;
• Devices management through a common SIM card.

And some field common to other versions of this family:

• Mobile marketing campaigns;
• Crew or fleet management, fastly exchanging informations with travelling workers;
• Advanced SMS services, sending and receiving SMS from a web interface and/or mailbox;
• Massive SMS campaigns to a distribution list (SMS letters), with statistics and surveys through real time reports;
• News and feedback sendings;
• SMS as input for a web order-processing system;
• Corporate SMS, like requests of informations or reports receivable via SMS.

Plus the basic services eventually offered as gateway:

• Needing of deliver incoming SMS to mailboxes to read them, to store them, to make some processing, and so on;
• Needing of forward emails to a mobile phone via SMS to reach remote operators (maybe following some particular logic).

Nagios plugin repository

You can add more plugins downloading them from Official Nagios website;