Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 08:39:02 +0100 From: Dom Mitchell <hdm@demon.net> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> Cc: Dan Riley <daniel@vailsys.com>, "isp@FreeBSD.ORG" <isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fax and Alpha paging solutions Message-ID: <E0wlrL4-0005X2-00.mailq@stress.noc.demon.net> In-Reply-To: <7318.868398343@orion.webspan.net>
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Gary Palmer wrote: > Dan Riley wrote in message ID > <33C2A88A.8B7A230A@vailsys.com>: > > Are any isp's using alpha pagers for notification of system outages > > or in conjunction with network monitoring utilities? If so what paging > > software is working for you on FreeBSD systems? > > We use tpage here. Thats just because it happened to fit a lot better > on our small pager gateway than hylafax. It has the odd problem, but > it works well enough to have gotten me out of bed at 5:30 this morning > to fix a dead news server. Together with Big Brother (from ports) it > makes a pretty decent, if basic, network monitor. It can't monitor the > news server very well (apart from checking its reachable ... it can > check for acceps on port 119, but that has a problem during renumbers, > for example). That reminds me, I must try and get nocol[1] working properly and bundled up as a port... Maybe after my break. -Dom [1] <URL:ftp://ftp.navya.com/pub/vikyas/nocol-4.01.tar.gz>;
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