What I would personally do would be to write a script to test the server
with a telnet or something, or even get the status from hobbit, and if
it's ok, send the message, if not, send it somewhere else. Then the
alert can just call that script with the proper arguments and go from
there.
Tod Hansmann
Network Engineer
-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 8:50 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] fallback alert service
On Nov 14, 2007 9:22 AM, Josh Luthman <user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
I've used the txt.att.com for a couple of years and not once missed
any
alerts or notifications of voicemail. I really can't help you beyond
this
point. Though I would yell at my mobile provider if that was my
situation!
I think what Joost is saying is that, when his email server/gateway
goes down there's no way to send email to his pager to let him know...
Joost - could you get your messages out by posting to a web page?? I
did that some time back by going to the relevant web page, extracting
the form, filling in the message, then posting it back. Once I had
the method sorted out, I could just post the form without the tedious
prior steps. Curl is pretty good for that - it handles http, https,
proxies, authentication, etc.
Ralph Mitchell