Sending messages to a numeric pager

[wvsa]

Greetings all
Have a 11.0 L2000 server that I want send alert messages to our pagers. Have a modem (9600 baud) that we can dial into. Seen a script from a Kofi Arthiabah that uses uucp, but the script does not mention what must be done in the Devices and Dialer file under /etc/uucp. We have a multitech modem which is recomended by hp so we should be ok there. We are a non profit so any way to do this without buying something would be great. Thankyou one and all for your asstiance.

[Tim Malnati]

If your paging service allows paging via an internet web browser, there is a better than even chance that they also allow pages to be sent via email. A small configuration change to sendmail via your email postoffice should be all that is needed.

Another thing worth looking at is the Big Brother monitoring package. It's open source software that very configurable and has a paging interface built in. It may not be as powerful as OpenView Network Node Manager, but it is free to use for most everyone. Their software terms are relatively simple; to quote them, "If you don't intend to charge for the software, charge for the monitoring services BB provides or include BB in a product or service offerings, then you don't need a commercial license. In fact over 99.9% of BB users don't." See http://www.bb4.com

[Madhu Sudhan_1 · Accepted solution]

wvsa !

Follow the url,http://www.qpage.org this is a freeware, easy to configure and use. This is compatiable with Pager Entry Terminal Protocol. (PET) and TAP (two popular protocols for paging). PET requires a password to be provided by your paging service provider. TAP takes default of 000000 (6 zeros) as the pasword.

Enjoy !
...Madhu

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

Hi wvsa:

my script assumes that you have configured your /etc/uucp/Devices correctly - ie in particular, you have an entry corresponding to ACU - with the port id to which your modem is connected... in my case I have :
ACU tty0p0 - 4800 alert
use
ioscan -fnC tty
to determine what yours is.

I also assume that in your /etc/uucp/Dialers you have the correct entry for your modem - it should list the different stimulus response patterns. In my case, for a hayes compatible modem, I have:


alert =,-, "" \dATZ\d\r OK\r \dAT\r\c OK\r \dATS7=45\r\c OK\r \dATDT\T\r\c
BUSY \d\dATH\r\c OK\r \d\dATZ\d\r OK\r

this may actually work for your modem... otherwise, you need to dig up the manual for your modem and look at the examples listed in /etc/uucp/Dialers.

good luck

[nnf97]

I go with Madhu, qpage is the way to go for the task you have in mind.
You can setup your pager to be numeric or alpha numeric in the qpage setup and it would only allow those kind of messages to be paged in that case.
Regards,
Nabeel