Remote Manager SMS

The Remote Manager SMS feature supports sending and receiving SMS messages between Remote Manager and a Remote Manager-registered device. You can use the Remote Manager SMS to:

• Send an SMS message to the Remote Manager-registered device in order to have the device dynamically establish its EDP connection with Remote Manager.
• Send user-defined data to and from Remote Manager and Remote Manager-registered devices.
• Perform limited device management such as pinging the Remote Manager-registered device, as well as provisioning it properly for SMS functionality with Remote Manager.

With Remote Manager-registered devices that support the Remote Manager SMS feature, Remote Manager can send an SMS message to the Remote Manager-registered device, instructing the device to establish its EDP connection to Remote Manager. Once the device uploads its data to Remote Manager, Remote Manager can then disconnect the EDP connection resulting in lower cellular data usage because the EDP connection no longer needs to be maintained around the clock.

Remote Manager SMS support makes sending data between Remote Manager-registered devices and Remote Manager easy and reliable. This Remote Manager feature augments and overcomes the limitations of using basic SMS messages in several ways:

• Send request/response pairs allowing confirmation of messages, as well as allowing Remote Manager-registered devices to respond to user commands sent though Remote Manager.
• Send messages larger than a single SMS message. Remote Manager automatically splits up and re-assembles large messages into a multi-part message without requiring any user intervention.
• Send binary messages (basic SMS messages are limited to text only).
• Guarantee data integrity (basic SMS messages do not guarantee integrity).

Complete details on configuring and using Remote Manager SMS are in the Digi Remote Manager User Guide.