[geeks] Paging software?

[der Mouse]

> I'm looking for a reasonably solid and capable chunk of paging
> software to use at work; we're having severe, intermittent problems
> with our mail relay, and we have this sort of circular problem of
> needing to send pages via email to let us know that there's a mail
> relay problem.

At work, we have a machine with a cellphone connected to it sending
SMSes to whoever the relevant on-call person is according to the
on-call schedule we've given it.

It's not clear whether this would work for you, especially given your
zero-budget restriction.  For us, it turns out that one cellphone
"line" and the outgoing SMS costs (I don't know whether we found an
unlimited plan or whether we pay per-message) is well worth it.  If you
want, I can find out the software details.  I know we're using nagios
as a monitoring framework, but I don't remember the names of any of the
other pieces.

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