[geeks] Paging software?

[Phil Stracchino]

Alois Hammer wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:47:38 -0400, "Patrick Giagnocavo"
> <patrick at zill.net> said:
>> If your network connection is down, how can you notify your pager via 
>> the network?  That is the problem people are trying to help you solve.
> 
> Yep, that would be pretty problematic.  But corporate IT monitoring
> *will* catch a major net outage.  I'm trying to monitor *email relay
> failure* and send pages about it.

So far, I think the best simple suggestion, short of putting in an 
outgoing-only modem to send pages, is to put a small watchdog box in 
place running, say, OpenBSD and some appropriate tool to monitor the 
mail relay, running a Postfix installation configured to send *only* and 
not listen for incoming mail at all.

Really, there isn't a shortage of technical solutions here.  It sounds 
as though the real problem is that you aren't being allowed to put any 
of the many possible solutions in place.


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