Re: [nanog] Re: Network Notifcation - SMS via Verizon
The other side of this besides the delayed receiving of messages is with monitoring you want to get the alerts even if your network is down and unable to send via email to your pager, cellphone, etc. Having an out of band method to get those alerts out on criticial alerts is paramount. I've used Nagios for many years but unfortunately have never worked with sending through Verizon. I've had decent experience using Sprint's gateways sending to my phone with minimal delay. Our solution, crufty as it might be, was that our monitoring server has a modem on it. As long as the pots lines are up, we just have it ring the on-call cell phone. When you see the caller ID, you know its time to get to a terminal. Usually our [EMAIL PROTECTED] would follow 10-15 seconds later. Tuc/TBOH
Re: Network Notifcation - SMS via Verizon
Alternately, verify with VZN that their TAP number(s) are still up and operational. I've received messages through a Verizon TAP-to-SMS gateway as recently as this morning.
Re: Blackberry List
If anyone is interested: Blackberry Outage A component of the network infrastructure is experiencing a service interruption. Service Affected: BlackBerry All service for some *The Americas Network (MULT) subscribers in the following locations: The Americas, Summary: BlackBerry Network Infrastructure Impact: BlackBerry subscribers may be unable to send or receive messages. Subscribers may also be unable to register their device, roam in another location, or use other services such as Internet browsing. BlackBerry Internet Service subscribers may be unable to use the BlackBerry Internet Service web site or perform activities such as creating new accounts, accessing their Internet mailbox, integrating third-party email accounts, or viewing email attachments. Devices may not receive new service books. BlackBerry Connect and BlackBerry-enabled devices that require a new PIN may be unable to receive the PIN. BlackBerry Enterprise Servers may be unable to connect to the BlackBerry Infrastructure. Wireless service providers and device resellers may be unable to use BlackBerry administration web sites or perform activities such as creating subscriber accounts or provisioning services for subscribers. [0491] Ticket Number: BB90352 Incident Window Start Date and Time: 11 February 2008 15:20:00 (EST) Downtime Duration: Ongoing % of Subscribers Affected: 50.00 (estimated) Cause: To Be Determined EST = GMT - 5 hours EDT = GMT - 4 hours AEST = GMT + 10 hours On 2/11/08, Paul Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Justin Pauler - Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realize this isn't the right forum for this, so, does anyone have a Blackberry list that has discussions much like what we do here? Even better, that might have information or alerts for when there are issues? I'm seeing an issue right now where phones from two independant providers have not recieved updates from two independant BES servers since 2:30 PM CST (that's now about 2 1/2 hours). For what it's worth, RIM has indicated that there is a large and critical BlackBerry outage in the Americas: http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1114968920080211 Also, there is the outages mailing list: http://isotf.org/mailman/listinfo/outages - - ferg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHsMvmq1pz9mNUZTMRAoXrAKCep73E6cQ9X1uaE6Flo9qmJh78cQCeMB6x SbGmsmEq45bDd6Tv5j57W3I= =AFOw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Fergie, a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
Re: Blackberry List
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:15:20 -0800 Justin Pauler - Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone... I realize this isn't the right forum for this, so, does anyone have a Blackberry list that has discussions much like what we do here? Even better, that might have information or alerts for when there are issues? I'm seeing an issue right now where phones from two independant providers have not recieved updates from two independant BES servers since 2:30 PM CST (that's now about 2 1/2 hours). Justin From the Wall Street Journal: A widespread service outage hit BlackBerry users Monday afternoon. ATT said it has been told by Research In Motion that the problem is with RIM's infrastructure, and is affecting all wireless carriers in North America. The disruption follows an outage last April that left millions of customers without email access. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
Re: Blackberry List
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Justin Pauler - Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realize this isn't the right forum for this, so, does anyone have a Blackberry list that has discussions much like what we do here? Even better, that might have information or alerts for when there are issues? I'm seeing an issue right now where phones from two independant providers have not recieved updates from two independant BES servers since 2:30 PM CST (that's now about 2 1/2 hours). For what it's worth, RIM has indicated that there is a large and critical BlackBerry outage in the Americas: http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1114968920080211 Also, there is the outages mailing list: http://isotf.org/mailman/listinfo/outages - - ferg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHsMvmq1pz9mNUZTMRAoXrAKCep73E6cQ9X1uaE6Flo9qmJh78cQCeMB6x SbGmsmEq45bDd6Tv5j57W3I= =AFOw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Fergie, a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
Blackberry List
Hello everyone... I realize this isn't the right forum for this, so, does anyone have a Blackberry list that has discussions much like what we do here? Even better, that might have information or alerts for when there are issues? I'm seeing an issue right now where phones from two independant providers have not recieved updates from two independant BES servers since 2:30 PM CST (that's now about 2 1/2 hours). Justin
Re: Blackberry List
I sent this off list to Justin, but realized that it might be of use to the rest of the list, as well. We went on the same hunt today when we noticed something was amiss and stumbled upon an unofficial notification list for Blackberry outages. The subscribe page is here: http://www.dataoutages.com/mailman/listinfo/bb-outage It's moderated, seems to be fairly low on the noise level, and has definitely helped us figure out what was going on. --Wayne On Feb 11, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:15:20 -0800 Justin Pauler - Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone... I realize this isn't the right forum for this, so, does anyone have a Blackberry list that has discussions much like what we do here? Even better, that might have information or alerts for when there are issues? I'm seeing an issue right now where phones from two independant providers have not recieved updates from two independant BES servers since 2:30 PM CST (that's now about 2 1/2 hours). Justin From the Wall Street Journal: A widespread service outage hit BlackBerry users Monday afternoon. ATT said it has been told by Research In Motion that the problem is with RIM's infrastructure, and is affecting all wireless carriers in North America. The disruption follows an outage last April that left millions of customers without email access. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
RE: [nanog] Re: Network Notifcation - SMS via Verizon
Our monitoring server lives in a physically (and geographically) separate data center. We've used the SMS Gateway services like usa.bulksms.com, but we've found that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is very effective and just as reliable. Matthew Evans, MCSA Alpha Theory | the right decision, every time. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 8:55 AM To: Jeremy T. Bouse Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nanog list Subject: Re: [nanog] Re: Network Notifcation - SMS via Verizon The other side of this besides the delayed receiving of messages is with monitoring you want to get the alerts even if your network is down and unable to send via email to your pager, cellphone, etc. Having an out of band method to get those alerts out on criticial alerts is paramount. I've used Nagios for many years but unfortunately have never worked with sending through Verizon. I've had decent experience using Sprint's gateways sending to my phone with minimal delay. Our solution, crufty as it might be, was that our monitoring server has a modem on it. As long as the pots lines are up, we just have it ring the on-call cell phone. When you see the caller ID, you know its time to get to a terminal. Usually our [EMAIL PROTECTED] would follow 10-15 seconds later. Tuc/TBOH
Re: Blackberry List
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Justin Pauler - Lists wrote: I realize this isn't the right forum for this, so, does anyone have a Blackberry list that has discussions much like what we do here? Even better, that might have information or alerts for when there are issues? Blackberry currently has problems for North America according to its spokespeople. Your best source of information should be your Blackberry/RIM account manager. Yeah, I know, somehow account managers seem to always be unreachable when there are problems.
Re: Network Notifcation - SMS via Verizon
David Lesher wrote: Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered: Do you not have the option of using a tool like 'smssend' or just [EMAIL PROTECTED] emailing? Note that most such schemes may be cached for minutes/hours/days. There are no guarantees re: delivery time. There is some separate $cheme used by the Vote now for CONTESTANT TV-driven nonsense. The other side of this besides the delayed receiving of messages is with monitoring you want to get the alerts even if your network is down and unable to send via email to your pager, cellphone, etc. Having an out of band method to get those alerts out on criticial alerts is paramount. I've used Nagios for many years but unfortunately have never worked with sending through Verizon. I've had decent experience using Sprint's gateways sending to my phone with minimal delay.
Level3 transit issues in NE?
Hey everyone, We've been seeing reachability issues to prefixes on Level3's network since early this morning. Paths that take L3 via XO seem to be displaying the same problems. Our Level3 peer is in Philadelphia, XO peer is in NYC. We have not been able to get a call back from Level3 since 5am. Has anyone heard any info regarding this? -- Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell. --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37
Re: Network Notifcation - SMS via Verizon
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Gregory Boehnlein wrote: So.. anyone doing SMS notification to Verizon w/ a wireless GSM/GPRS or Cell Phone solution? If so, you want to share how you are doing it? You can also search for qpage and verizon tap on google. I don't know how up-to-date the numbers are, though. Alternately, verify with VZN that their TAP number(s) are still up and operational. - d. -- Dominic J. Eidson Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu! - Gimli http://www.the-infinite.org/
