Most pagers and cellphones have both email and tap gateways. If one uses the mail gateway for alerting, set-up a device that performs and alert via the tap terminal upon the mail server failure.
Works for me. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Summers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 7:20 AM Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] WhatsUpGold SMTPMail > Just one note of caution. I am sure everyone has thought of this, but here > goes. > > If you are trying to send an alert via email that the email server is down, > then you will need to use some other type of alert like simple text paging. > Also, this would apply for any routers or switches between the mail servers > and the internet, or between the Whatsup gold box and the mail server. > > It is sometimes best to state the obvious, or at least what you personally > feel is obvious. > > David Summers > > 214.706.1147 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Summers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 7:03 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] WhatsUpGold SMTPMail > > > We make custom recipients for each of our pagers with email access. If the > pager belongs to Jon Doe, then it is much easier to remember > [EMAIL PROTECTED] when sending a page, compared to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Just setup a new custom recipient with the pager email address and the > outside address. Then, when a message comes from the SMTP client in Whatsup > to the IMC in Exchange, it simply sends it back out the other address. You > can then hide the address from the GAL so that only people that know the > naming scheme will be able to send to the pagers. > > David Summers > > 214.706.1147 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wieczorek, Eric SGT NE-ARNG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:50 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] WhatsUpGold SMTPMail > > > I have configured WUG to send email notifications out, to users on my staff, > if routers or switches go down. Works just fine. > > We now have pagers that accept text emails. For instance, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm having problems with WUG sending emails to the "outside" world. > > I'm running Exchange 5.5 with SP4. > > I need to configure my exchange server to relay the messages from the > WhatsUpGold server to the outside world. > > Any ideas on how I can do that?? > > Thank-you. > > Eric Wieczorek > Network Administrator | Nebraska Army National Guard > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
