Re: debian and MCI paging problem...

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

My advice to you is to not use their web interface. Somewhere they have a dial-up number for a special modem connection which uses a protocol known as IXO. Then all you need is a modem attached to the box which will be sending the pages. I can give you the software which will send a page (it even has a spooler). Then you can send pages with 'tpage someone "here's a bunch of text"'. I've also got a web front end to this program which I can send you (just a quick-hack perl cgi, I'm sure you could do better). david oswald wrote: Hello all... Here's what I need to do. I have a Debian box and various processes running on it that check various platforms (hp, aix...) for different configurations that we monitor. Such as file system capacity... - once we reach 95%, we want to send a page to the right guy/gal.     I don't think this should be terribly difficult... You see we are using MCI's paging service over the web already. We have taken this code (java-script) and used it in house and created a little menu of available persons to simplify the paging operation. HOWEVER this methods requires manual intervention through someone's browser of choice.    I have created a script providing the pin # and the message (which is no problem) but HOW do I pass this information back to MCI to get it processed if I'm not using a web based browser to fill in the message fields. Is this something that I am over looking the obvious - I hope so...     I have provided the MCI Paging page http://www.mci.com/connections/interact/sendpage/sendpage.shtml) , so that you can get an idea of what I am dealing with, I hope I have made it clear that it is our desire to automate the creation of the paging operation through shells scripts, and NOT using a browser to fill in these pages for us. I have also attached the _javascript_ (mci.htm) which does some of this work for us but again it can only be used from a browser. I began to think something like telnet to www.mci.com:80 and interact with it that way ?! I need some advice here... Any help appreciated ... Thanx in advance... Send a Page Employee: (Select an Employee Name) Last_name1, First_name1 Last_name2, First_name2 Last_name3, First_name3 Last_name4, First_name4    Text Message  (maximum of 240 alpha-numeric characters for most paging services)      -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]