Free (or cheap) software to send pager messages - HPUX 10.20

[Francisco Mancardi_1]

I'm need to send messages to pagers, and I would like to know what software to use.
I have tried QuickPage (www.qpage.org), but
without luck.

Any suggestion ?

Best Regards

Francisco mancardi

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi,

I simply use sendmail. My paging service will accept text messages so that it is nothing more
complicated than:

echo "This is a test" | elm -s "Test Page" 9001234@pagemci.com

The other thing to consider is that you network is down but you still need to receive pages. My approach to this is to talk directly to a modem on a serial port and echo numeric codes to simulate a dailback number for the pager. I have specific codes for specific failures. Anything beginning with '9' is very bad.

[Zafar A. Mohammed]

If you have sendmail running and Pager(TEXT), your pager company should allow you to forward the mails and it will be very simple like
echo "Write you short description" | mailx -s "Subject" 123457@pagerdomain.com

Thanks
Zafar

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

My pager system works the same as Clay's. I send simple pager messages to myself like this:

# mailx -s "hello JRF!" xxx@yyy.com < dev/null > /dev/null

...JRF...

[Deshpande Prashant]

If you do not have any firewall issues to go out from HP box, you can use sendmail/mailx utility.
I use
mailx -s "message to send" 1234567@skytel.com

Thanks.
Prashant Deshpande.

[Jared Westgate_1]

I hate to keep saying what everyone else is saying, but I agree. We recently upgraded our old pagers to newer text pagers that accept email. If you have a contract with a paging company you can often upgrade for no cost. We didn't have to pay anything. If I remember correctly, the monthly cost was even the same.

In this day and age, it is simply the easiest solution. It is also good because you don't have to worry about maintaining software running on your system. I just put in my scripts:

PAGELIST="1231234567@epage.arch.com root"
echo "Error #12345" | mailx -s "System Error" $PAGELIST

Best of luck,

Jared

[someone_4]

If you want to send messages to more then one pager or cell phone. Set up a user say pagers and on your email rule make it out to
pagers@localhost
and set up a .forward file in /home/pagers
in the .forward file with permissions of 755 and set up all the emails that you want that message to go to.
thisuser@thisphone.come
thatuser@hotmail.com


that will forward any mails to the user pagers to the emails in your .forward file.
Also make sure you can relay and do nslookups to the outside world or you will need some kind of mail relay.

Richard

[Francisco Mancardi_1]

In my question is a missing detail.
My customer wants PAGING AVOIDING EMAIL i.e. connection via a modem to the pager provider's server talking TAP. (if the core switch dies how I will reach the
Internet ??)

Thanks

Francisco

[Rodney Hills]

I found this kermit script (see attached file)by F. da Cruz and C. Gianone, Columbia University, to drive a modem to send a text page.
I have not used it myself, but maybe you can make use of it.

-- Rod Hills

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

Here's a link to a script by Kofi Arthiabah that generates a page to a numeric pager. Perhaps you will find this useful:

http://my1.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xeff06c96588ad4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Kofi has an attachement in one of the responses in this thread.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Charles Harris]

Hi,

We use a system for sending TAP protocol messages to our services provide (Pageone) although we use Linux boxes - which I know isn't what you asked. However, we use linux servers because there a very effective way of using old kit. We have 2 desktop PC each with 2 modems that handle over 800 pagers and sms recipiants.

The reason I mention it is that you can get all of the software required from the HPUX porting archives. If you interested I'll get you the name of the sms suit, although you should bear in mind that this is NOT and off the shelf type soloution, and takes time to configure both the server and client(s).

Regards,

-ChaZ-

[Chris Calabrese]

Another choice if you don't want to deal with modems and your paging service doesn't support pin@paging-service.com may be to use SNPP, which is sort of like TAP for the Internet, but with simpler commands.

I cobbled up a script that uses a telnet co-process to talk to an SNPP server in ksh. Unfortunately, I can't share this script, but it shouldn't be too terribly difficult to write your own. Especially if done in perl (not many folks know about the ksh co-process stuff).

See, for example, the information at http://www.skytel.com/partners/dev_resources_snpp.htm

[Wodisch]

Hello Francisco,

I do not know wether you have a GSM cellular phone
network in Argentina, but if then you might just send
an email (like the others do) but send it to your mobile
phone network provider's SMS gateway (Short Message
Service). Work pretty good for me...

Just my $0.02,
Wodisch