You have misunderstood the command syntax. I know the nvpage man page may not
be great so here's the scoop.
To send an alphanumeric message you must have a carrier defined in nv.carriers
and use it with a pin number. When you direct dial a pager number, your message
can only be numeric. For example, an alphanumeric message would be like this:
nvpage 1234567@skytel Interface 735 has a problem
Here the first number is a PIN for skytel.
When you want to direct dial, your message is like this
nvpage 18002559600 123456789
The first number here is the actual phone number to dial, and the second is the
string of digits you want sent to that number. And it cannot have any
non-numeric characters included (though your modem will accept a comma because
that is a "pause") in a dial string. That is a good way to think about a
numeric message -- it is just another dial string - because it goes over the
telephone network as a tone series just like the original number. It is as if
you entered the message with the telephone keys (there aren't any real letters
just digits).
You can also send a numeric message with a carrier such as
nvpage -n 1234567@skytel 19192544600
which allows you to reach a user who has lower grade numeric-only messages with
his carrier.
But what you cannot do is both direct dial and send an alphanumeric message.
That function does not exist, because to send an alphanumeric message
successfully requires that nvpage knows the protocol your carrier is using, and
protocols are specified in the nv.carriers file. nvpage actually dials the
pager company and sets up a session with a computer on their end which accepts
the page. That's how this works. The page doesn't just transmit directly to
the recipient, as a direct dial numeric page does.
Does this make sense?
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
"Boulieris, Arthur" <Arthur.Boulieris@NZ.UNISYS.COM> on 10/13/99 06:02:19 PM
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Subject: Re: nvpager
Sorry James,
I wasnt terribly focussed when I sent that mail.
The box is running solaris 2.6 and Netview 5.1.1.
The pager modem actually gets as far as dialing so I figured nvpager.config
is fine.
The nv.carriers confuses me,I thought that its only used when a carrier is
specified in the nvpage command.ie nvpage 111667@caltel meet me at
8pm(example from manual)
I am using nvpage <pager number> <alpha numeric message> I expected this
format not to use nv carriers as a carrier is not specified and by default
there are many carriers specified?
Thanks for your help.
Arthur
-----Original Message-----
From: James Shanks [mailto:James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 1:50 AM
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
Subject: Re: nvpager
My first comment is "What level of code are you using?" and my second is
"what
operating system?". Nobody can help you much if you don't tell us that.
My third comment is that you can't get an error message if you config file
is
OK. The nvapgerd daemon is not a mind reader. It relies on what you tell
it in
the config file. So what did you tell it? What's in nv.carriers and what
is
the nvpage command you are trying to send?
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
"Boulieris, Arthur" <Arthur.Boulieris@NZ.UNISYS.COM> on 10/12/99 08:36:47 PM
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cc: (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
Subject: nvpager
Hi ,
Im experiencing some difficulty getting nvpager to work properly.
If I use the command line and nvpage <ph # > <numeric message> it says
message successfully sent.The modem dials out and appears to send but the
message never arrives.Any one know why its dialing my pager # and not
sending the message?
If I send an alpha numeric message it says error (non alpha numeric pager) I
have checked my config files and everything seems ok.
Id appreciate your comments ,
thanks.
Arthur Boulieris
Implemetation & Support
Systems Management
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