Re: Software to call when a unit is down.
John Nowack (john@dpc.net)
Wed, 9 Oct 1996 14:33:22 -0500
>There are probably 5 or 6 packages out there available for linux/unix that
>will convert email into a page either numeric or alpha. You could set up a
>mailbox for EACH portmaster, make a cron job to ping each one every 5
I went a different route here. I got an alpha pager from a paging company
that already had an e-mail/pager gateway. I have a job that check via
ping and sends an e-mail out if it fails. In order to cover the possibility
that it is our main T-1 that is down (and then I could not e-mail the
gateway), I also run this on another network that checks back to my network.
He checks his network and my server, I check my network and his server.
John
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