one thing I did several years ago was to use hylafax with a modem to dial
the phone company's computers directly to send a page. This eliminated the
internet access as a dependancy for the page going out (replacing it with
the much simpler POTS line dependancy)
it worked well, but I'm not sure how useful something like this would be
today. If you are running something mission critical enough to need to be
sure that you can get alerted even in the face of internet connectivity
problems, you should probably have a 24x7 operations staff monitoring your
systems anyway (not to mention redundant internet connections). For
anything smaller, e-mail to the phone/pager is probably reliable enough.
David Lang
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Rob Cherry wrote:
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:00:16 -0400
From: Rob Cherry <[email protected]>
To: LOPSA Discuss List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] Monitoring and Alerting
Small shop - 35 users, 10 servers
We use zabbix and *love* it. SMS via <phonenumber>@smsemailaddr.com. Works
so far and includes niceties like escalation with lack of ack. Still dont
have rotation to allow for 2 admins to share 1 week on / 1 week off, but you
could script this and call the script as your paging action. I would also
like to use an SMS modem to allow for semi reliable paging rather than
internet reliance, but meh.
Can talk offline about setup peculiarities if you go the zabbix route.
Regards,
Rob
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