@Martin, Yes, and sorry for the confusion about it being hidden again. I've just taken product management ownership of the feature, and there was some misunderstanding on the current state of the feature. The feature itself is considered stable, well tested, and ready for release. The listed providers, however, are not. This is why it was hidden again, so as not to convey more trust in interoperability with the selected SMS providers than we actually have at this point. I'd like to get this feature back in a full release state, and the only way to do that, is to get results from testing it with the existing listed providers.
Anyone who still wants to give this feature a spin, can re-enable it in webadmin with the following shell command:
touch /tmp/enable_sms
then log back into webadmin. It's in /tmp, so you'll likely need to repeat the command if you reboot the firewall. This will put it back in the same state it was in 9.309, where you can configure and test the feature.
@Bruce, Amazon's SNS service is a great suggestion. Implementation is considerably harder than most SMS providers, but the price is certainly very attractive. I'm looking into it now.
@Martin, Yes, and sorry for the confusion about it being hidden again. I've just taken product management ownership of the feature, and there was some misunderstanding on the current state of the feature. The feature itself is considered stable, well tested, and ready for release. The listed providers, however, are not. This is why it was hidden again, so as not to convey more trust in interoperability with the selected SMS providers than we actually have at this point. I'd like to get this feature back in a full release state, and the only way to do that, is to get results from testing it with the existing listed providers.
Anyone who still wants to give this feature a spin, can re-enable it in webadmin with the following shell command:
touch /tmp/enable_sms
then log back into webadmin. It's in /tmp, so you'll likely need to repeat the command if you reboot the firewall. This will put it back in the same state it was in 9.309, where you can configure and test the feature.
@Bruce, Amazon's SNS service is a great suggestion. Implementation is considerably harder than most SMS providers, but the price is certainly very attractive. I'm looking into it now.
