Uplogix Blog Feature Spotlight: Unencrypted SMS-initiated Automation

When you design for automation, you spend a lot of time looking at edge cases. 95% of the time, a standard approach will work, but for that other five percent, we need to get more creative. That's how we approached the SMS-initiated PPP feature we introduced several years back. It allows you to remotely activate your out-of-band connection on a Local Manager by sending a text message over the cellular network via the Uplogix Control Center. We needed the feature because some customers weren't able to use Pulse to automatically enable PPP, and others didn't have any in-band connections at all. Imagine it: a completely network-isolated Local Manager only called into action by a text message that activates its out-of-band connection.