--- Vincent.RaRaffensbergertdtnom wrote:
> To answer your question "What is "best practice", I believe that if
> you're
> monitoring something critical, mail is likely the worst alert
<snip>
> If you can't do something like that, I'd consider installing a modem
> to
> send text pages or even a computer generated voice message.
> If you have a major outage or network problems, your phone line may
> be
> your last resort without a 24/7 operations department.
>
> Plan for the worst. It WILL happen eventually!
>
>
Thanks Vincent,
The dadatacenters unattended. The admins are primarily reachable by
cellphone. I see where a phone line and text-to-spspeechoice message
would be pretty reliable, though not as usable as text.
I'm not worried about the ininternetonnection since the dadatacenters
in rented space in an ASP. I think the connections to the ininternetre
as good as it gets, and in any case the other monitor could detect and
report that kind of problem (from ping, momonsmsmtponitors). I'm
worried about the email servers.
I don't nenecessarilyeed to get state of the art (for now).
There is a manual backup, because the "end users" have a process which
eventually leads to calling the admins if the failure affects the end
users. The automated monitoring is still very important in order to
report loss of redundancy (which is not apparent to the end users",
give us quicker notification, and provide details. Also, we alert 2 or
3 admins which have cell phones from different providers.
I would like to stay in the context of the momontility, if possible.
I would like to better understand the current vulnerability.
What holes are there in the setup where I just use mail.alert and
smsmtponitor from one monitor to the other?
What sort of setup do others have?
Thanks,
Michael VoVogt
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