As a long time AIX admin this is an area that I personally have seen evolve
substantially over the last few years. Way back when (1989 or so) we used
Telebit Trailblazers w/ UUCP configs to call our paging companies computer
and page us, but this was very unreliable and a pain to setup. Then came
some of the freeware and commercial products. I am drawing a blank on the
name of paging software we used for years but support for it finally
dropped. I have used one commercial product: SPatch with good success, but
lately I have found the easiest thing to do is just enable sendmail enough
to be able to send emails and send them to PIN@PAGINGCO.NET. This has
worked for me since about 1995 or so when connections to the Net started
coming ubiquitious. You do have a couple of points of failures for this so
it may not meet your needs, depending on circusmstances. (Example: you are
monitoring internet connections and need someone paged if they go down).
For most every config I have ever set up a 2400 baud modem seems to be the
minimum. That shouldn't be hard to find! :)
For Spatch contact: www.spatch.com or 770-495-0718
Hope this helped.
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> From: Brook, Bryan S[SMTP:bryan.s.brook@LMCO.COM]
> Reply To: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
> Sent: Monday, December 21, 1998 10:34 AM
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Hardware configuration required to page/beep someone?
>
> We are trying to set up paging (beeping) when we get certain traps but we
> have never done this. I found the software to do this (fbeep), but I have
> no idea what configurations we need to do hardware-wise.
>
> Do we hook up a modem to a serial line? What type of modem? Any
> suggestions? I saw mention of the IXO protocol. Is this what is
> typically
> used?
>
> Much Appreciation,
>
> Bryan
>
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