From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jul 9 00:39:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA03229 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 00:39:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from noc.demon.net (firewall-user@server.noc.demon.net [193.195.224.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA03223; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 00:39:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by noc.demon.net; id IAA02429; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 08:39:15 +0100 (BST) Received: from stress.noc.demon.net(195.11.55.5) by inside.noc.demon.net via smap (3.2) id xma002416; Wed, 9 Jul 97 08:39:03 +0100 Received: from hdm by stress.noc.demon.net with local (Exim 1.651 #1) id 0wlrL4-0005X2-00; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 08:39:02 +0100 To: Gary Palmer cc: Dan Riley , "isp@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Fax and Alpha paging solutions X-Mailer: nmh v0.14, exmh 2.0gamma, gvim 4.5 X-Colour: Green In-reply-to: <7318.868398343@orion.webspan.net> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 08:39:02 +0100 From: Dom Mitchell Message-Id: Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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]