Need repeat pages /a lerts

[Daniel Olson_1]

When a host goes down in SIM 4.2, you can set up a task to page on "status change" events. I have done this. However, I cannot get SIM to keep paging until the issue is fixed. I would like to have sim page every interval when there is any host in the critical state that is unde ractive monitoring. Ideally an escalation function would be nice. Anyone know of someone doing this / testing this?

[David Claypool]

This could be accomplished with a custom list that contained all of the systems that matched the criteria you wanted to use (servers <> normal). Create a custom command that basically does nothing other than echo %DEVICENAME%.

Once you've done that, create a script that calls the custom command through mxexec and pass it the name of the custom list. Have the output written to a temp file. It will contain the names of all the servers that matched the criteria. Next in your script, use a command-line email utility to send the information from the temp file.

Finally, use the AT command in Windows or cron in Linux to have it run at whatever interval you desire.