Pat:
--- Pat Storr wrote:
We use InterMapper to send email pages when a problem is detected. However,
some of our smaller customers don't carry pagers, but would still like to be
alerted when their network devices are having problems. I can make InterMapper
dial a telephone number and spew touch-tones into the ear of whomever answers,
but it would be REALLY COOL if InterMapper could deliver a recorded message
(sound file?) or via the Mac's speech/voice generator.
--- end of quote ---
There are a couple ways to do this:
- I know that Text-to-Speech-to-Telephone utilities exist, especially on the
Windows side. (There was once a Mac program, but that seems to have died a
merciful death a while ago...)
- I currently use a service called iPing to do just this. You send e-mail to a
certain address, and iPing then calls the pre-configured number and reads (text
to speech) the e-mail message to the poor guy whose dinner is going to be
interrupted.
- You can also configure an InterMapper command line notifier to send the
notification through their HTTP interface. It's described at:
http://www.dartware.com/intermapper/immanual/chapter3/clexample.html
- And of course, if a downed internet connection prevents the e-mail from
getting through, you can always configure InterMapper to spew touch tones in
anyone's ear that'll listen... :-)
iPing costs $4.95/month for something like 30 or 50 minutes of calling. It's
pretty cool, and they have an affiliate program. http://www.iping.com
Rich
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