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Sending Hobbit alerts to numeric pager

list Trent Melcher
Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:46:31 -0500
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On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 08:32 -0400, Manocchia, Robert wrote:
 
I need to alert via a numeric page when a red alert happens for
certain services (conn, disk etc…). The page number has the following
format:

 
  <areacode><number>@page.provider.com
Yes, you would just use it as a typical email address,  however I would
also recommend setting up something like quickpage(qpage)  to send pages
out via and local TAP or 800 TAP depending on your pager provider.  At
least use this to send you pages if your mailserver goes down or have
issue sending out emails, this way you still get your pages and know of
problems.  It does require a modem and phone line to be attahced to your
hobbbit server.  THis has saved us a few times when having network and
and mail server issues.

Thanks
Trent
 
We successfully send pages out via sendmail regularly via a script on
another server.

 
 How do I incorporate this method into Hobbit. Do I just use the MAIL
keyword in hobbit-alerts.cfg or is there something else I need to do.

 
 I’ve checked out all the documentation but cannot get a clue what to
do.

 
Robert Manocchia

UNIX System Administrator

IDEXX Laboratories

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