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On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Prof Jake Messinger wrote:
> Ahh... this is an INTERESTING question. > > 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 > mins, if down, mail a prewritten file to the portmaster's mailbox and the > pager daemon software would then convert that into a page. Youd need just > a modem on the unix/linux system to do this. > > On Wed, 9 Oct 1996 alexm@agetech.net wrote: > > > I would like to know of a software I can use that will cal me via beeper > > when a unit in not accessable. Like ping the machine and beep me when > > one of them is down or somethin of the sort, maybe useing SNMP? > > > > ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ > Jake Messinger 713-772-6690 jake@ams.com > Advanced Medical Systems, Inc. 800-324-8594 jake@uh.edu > Houston, Texas http://www.ams.com/~jake > ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ > > (Don't steal my squigglies) > > >