Sendpage

[John Booth_1]

I was just wondering if anyone currently uses Sendpage on a HP-UX system. If not I was looking for some suggestions on different programs that will send a notification via a pager.
Thanks,

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi John,

Most of the paging systems have a SMTP interface these days so all you have to do for text messages is something like:
echo "This is a page" | elm -s "Test Subject" "8889007777@pagemci.com"

You can substitute your favorite mail program (mail,mailx,etc.) for elm.

This does assume you have sendmail configured on your box.

One other thing to consider is how to send pages if the network is down. Most typically you would do this in an ITO/NNM environment and you need to be paged of that event.

My solution for that is to use the 'AT' commands to talk directly to a modem to dial my pager and send a numeric code for the event.
This is only done if the textual paging via sendmail fails.

Food for thought, Clay