Re: Automatic paging

There is generic paging software available which will send out pages from a modem. You simply queue a page w/ a message, and the software dials out via mode to your paging service provider. It's pretty straightforward stuff. So you can have your crontab running an `awk` script or whatever every hour, and if it is above a certain high water mark, queue a page for you. Do a search on "spratch". Nigel Gall wrote: > Hi! > > remember when I visited the 1994 IWUC, there was a company selling a > product that would send an alert specific message to your pager. This > > allowed you to setup alert conditions which you think are high > priority, > such as logical logs 90% full, and the utility would send you a > message on > your pager so that you could take the appropriate action. > > Has anyone used a product like this? what's the technology involved? > would my paging service have to have some specific > setup/equipment/service? > > my system will be moving to a 24x7 environment, and within recent > times my > logical logs filled up without adequate notice (I have a cronjob which > > emails me if my logs are 50% full, but i'm not there at 1:00 a.m.! a > pager > would ensure that i'm notified even when i'm on the road, away from my > > email). can anyone think of another way to be adequately notified of > the > status of my system, without having to have personnel on-site 24x7? > > Thanks for your response. > > Best regards, > Nigel > +-------------------------------------------------------------+ > |Name : Edmund Nigel Gall Tel: (868) 636 3153 | > |Title : Information Systems Specialist Fax: (868) 679 3770 | > |Company: Process Plant Services Limited | > |Address: Atlantic Avenue, Point Lisas Industrial Estate | > | Point Lisas, Couva, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. | > +----- mailto:nigelg@ppsl.com ------ http://www.ppsl.com -----+ -- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ADDRESS ALTERED TO FOIL SPAMMERS: Remove "*NO-SPAM*" to reply. Cosmo Lee Multi-User Computer Systems Brooklyn, NY "JUST SAY 'NO' TO SPAM" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *