On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:01:05AM -0500, Andrew Siegel wrote: > There are many things that can go wrong in the email delivery chain, > making it undependable for alerts of an urgent nature. Better to use > qpage.alert to send TAP/IXO text messages to a pager. Use a modem > directly connected to your mon host, and connected to a direct copper > phone line to further minimize things that can go wrong. > > We use this technique as well as email-based paging, and most of the > time the modem-transmitted messages get to the pagers faster.
I once worked at a shop where they were sending out email-based pages for everything, including for when the mail servers went down. When that happened, the down and up pages wouldn't show up until after the problem was fixed, usually with the up page showing up first. Needless to say, I had to fix that pretty quickly. Currently I'm using something similar to what David uses - we try to reach our paging vendor's Internet gateway to send a page, and if that fails, fall back to qpage with a modem. Our environment is a bit more complicated in that we have three paging vendors to deal with. You can find the old version of my multi-vendor script by googling for "pageomat", I've got a newer version with the fallback paging that I'll release One of These Days Real Soon Now. Maybe around the same time David releases his two-way Skytel code :-) :-). _______________________________________________ mon mailing list mon@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon
