I guess I don't understand the cable recommendation. I'm not looking for out-of-band connectivity. I'm looking for something that could send me an alert (email, text, etc.) if we lose external communication to our data center.
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Erik Goldoff <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >
