SUMMARY: paging software

From: John Seel <john.seel_at_us.faulding.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 09:05:30 -0500

Thanks to all who responded.

My original post was:
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Hello All,

I have seen several sites configured to notify a manager via a pager in the
event of system failures or reboots or whatever. I had understood that
there was some paging software running on a system somewhere (possibly even
on a Windows NT system), and a DU system could send a page via this "page
server".

Does anybody have any information on paging software that I can use (either
DU based or NT based)?

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For paging software, most people pointed me to a freeware product called
"qpage" which is available at:
http://www.qpage.org

I downloaded the latest version and am in the process of reviewing it.

Others pointed me to "spatch" at:
http://www.spatch.com
which also looks good but has a price attached.

Other suggestions for monitoring included:

"What's up?" at:
http://www.ipswitch.com

and "Mon" at :
http://consult.ml.org/~trockij/mon/


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Although our DU systems run a critical manufacturing application, our
enviroment is primarily Windows NT driven and there is no money in the
budget to invest in a DU based product.  We are already evaluating "What's
up?" on an NT platform and it looks like the "powers that be" will
implementing that solution.  "What's up?" has the ability to send e-mail
notification, and we have configured it to send e-mail via our pagers.  The
NT server running "What's up?" is also the only system with an attached
modem.  It can presently page us if "What's up?" senses a network related
problem such as a system or router down. I can also send an e-mail page
directly from the DU systems as long as our mail server and Internet
connection are up.  I was looking for a backup mechanism to send a page
from DU via the "What's up?" server's modem, in the event that e-mail is
down.  It looks like qpage might be part of that solution if I can find an
SNPP server that will run on NT and is priced right ( approximately $0 or
less ).
Thanks again to all who responded.
John Seel
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John Seel
UNIX Administrator
Faulding, Inc.
(908) 659-2398
"john.seel_at_us.faulding.com"
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Received on Tue Jan 12 1999 - 14:06:32 NZDT