On Thu May 4 12:57:13 2000 wrote...
>
>The short answer is yes it can be and is done. The longer more difficult answer
>will be how.
>
>In short, we do this by capturing the alarm history file on a periodic basis,
>searching for contents of the alarms for certain text (like C:B.HAIND). If a
>message shows up that we are monitoring for, we use a script to format a
>compatible text file (maybe in SMTP format) that contains TO:, FROM:, SUBJECT,
>and the alarm message. The text file is FTP'd to a location on our network
>where it is picked up by our email system.
>
This is slightly more complex than it needs to be. For one thing
you can use mailx to do all teh SMTP stuff for you (look at the man
page, or I can send you an example). The second point is that if
you have a machine that you can access via ftp, taht is conected to
the corporate network, and can email, then you can just put it in
the .etc.hosts file(s) of the machine(s) not so conected as
mailhost, and sendmail will then send it to that machine for
fowarding. Fowarding is enabled in the default install of Solaris
as doen by Foxboro.
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Charleston SC.
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Windows 98: n.
useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and
a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit
company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
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