David, Another thing you can do is configure a recurring notification to email a status report at a given time. Failure to receive this notification could indicate a serious outage.
Regards, Joe In reply to 29 Oct message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >I've been using E-Mail to send my notification also but just last >weekend our main production router went down and I didn't know it >until I came in Monday. With our router being down there was no >way to get my notification until our connection back to the >Internet came back on-line. This is why I've decided to revisit >the old Sprint TAP again. >Jacob, I receive the same message that you do. I think I'm going >to find the oldest external modem I can find and see if that >works. My monitor server is currently a Dell PowerEdge rack >system that only supports PCI so I'm going to find an old Hayes >external serial modem and test it with that. The US Robotic one >that WUG support recommended did the same as my internal one. I'm >hoping it will work, if it does I'll let you guys know. >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/28/2003 11:55:57 AM >>> >I could never get Sprint/PCS to work either. >This is what I get: >[Sprint] Maximum connection time to process script set to: 150 >seconds [Sprint] Attempting to connect to Provider: USA/Sprint PCS >[Sprint] Sent: "ATE0Q0V1X4F1<CR>" >[Sprint] waiting for completion >[Sprint] Returned: "<CR><LF>OK<CR><LF>" >[Sprint] Sent: "ATDT18886561727<CR>" >[Sprint] waiting for completion >[Sprint] Returned: "<CR><LF>NO CARRIER<CR><LF>" >[Sprint] No carrier! >[Sprint] Sent: "+++" >[Sprint] Sent: "ATH0<CR>" >[Sprint] waiting for completion >[Sprint] Returned: "<CR><LF>OK<CR><LF>" >[Sprint] Sent: "+++" >[Sprint] Sent: "ATH0<CR>" >[Sprint] waiting for completion >[Sprint] Returned: "<CR><LF>OK<CR><LF>" >[Sprint] Connection time: 30 seconds >Sending pager or beeper notifications work. I just use email to >send me a >message to my Sprint/PCS phone. >At 10:28 AM 10/28/2003, you wrote: >>Tara, >> >>That's the correct number but I can't get it to go through with WUG. >I >>am able to use a third party to send pages to my phone but WUG will >not >>complete the send. I worked with Support a while back but I guess >they >>gave up on assisting me with this problem. I've never been able to >get >>WUG to use Sprint SMS if you find out let me know, I would love to be >>able to get it to work. >> >> >> >> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/28/2003 11:51:56 AM >>> >> >> >>I am trying to set up the sprint TAP service. I was told the number >is >>18886561727. It is not working. Does anyone have suggestions as to >>changes that can be made....modem string? >> >>Tara Lee >> >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/
