yeah, I would have recommended a POTS line (Plain Old Telephone Service) phone line for modem, but they are barely less expensive than a small dsl/cable, and at much more limited speeds
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 1:58 PM, J- P <[email protected]> wrote: > A modem can send sms , although a inexpensive dsl/cable (as mentioned) > would not be that much more expensive, and provide a lot more benefit. > > > > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 13:24:03 -0400 > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] External monitoring? > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > inexpensive DSL/Broadband to the data center as an 'emergency' > supplemental circuit is pretty affordable in most cases and comes in handy > many times, out of band of revenue dependent main circuits. > > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Eric Brouwer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Greetings, > > I used to be part of the old Lyris/Sunbelt community, but I have been out > of IT administration for several years. I was a PM in that time, and just > recently came back to IT. > > A situation arose this weekend where I could use your advice. We use > SolarWinds for network, server, and application monitoring, and it works > very well for us. Our core switch went down this weekend, severing all > external communications, so SolarWinds could not send alerts to external > resources. Do you use any kind of remote external monitoring that would > send an alert if communications go down? > > Thank you! > > Eric > > >
