RE: automatic paging

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 I'm not sure if this is the product that you had in mind, but we use = SPATCH. It runs on most variants of UNIX and is quite inexpensive. It = allows pages to be sent directly from the UNIX box to text pagers. It = will also forward e-mail. No special technology is required, you only = need to know the modem number of your pager companies computer, and an = outgoing phone line to place the page. You can output errors from = scripts or programs to the e-mail server and have them forwarded to = individual pagers or groups of pagers. It works quite well. SPATCH is = distributed by the HYDE Company (770) 495-0718. Sorry I do not have = e-mail info on them. You can download a 30-day trial version of the = software from Unidirect's web site http://www.unidirect.com. Just be = prepared for a sales call! Good Luck. -- ----------------------------------------------------- :-) Jeff Sweetser - Vice President of MIS Ward/Kraft, Inc. (316) 223-5500 ext. 249 jsweetser@terraworld.net These opinions are mine and mine alone.