We use Servers Alive with a product called Attention. It is a little pricy, but has nice functionality. Attention uses phone line to send text or numeric pages, can also send emails and make phone calls. It also has phone interface to check/set status of an alert, lets you leave status messages for others, has on-call calendar, and can perform escalation.
Jim Ferrell EDS - Allison Transmission Mail Stop M-12A 4700 W 10th St Indianapolis, IN 46222 * phone: +01-317-242-0034 (8-252) * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell phone: 317-716-4541 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SA-list] Page when e-mail server/network not available I've been using Servers Alive for a while, but so far have just been using it to send e-mail based alerts to a cell phone: one page when a server or process is down, again when it comes back. Works great as long as the network itself is up, and the primary and/or secondary e-mail server(s) are also up, which is 99% of the time. I'm wanting however to add some more robustness. I'm wondering what have others found as the best way to page when the network itself is unavailable, or both primary and/or secondary e-mail server(s) are unavailable. I'm looking for recommendations on what works well. Perhaps use the "Numeric Paging" option, and configure Servers Alive to call your cell phone, knowing that a call from the servers number with several "beeps" means the network is down? Perhaps purchase a pager, and carry it in addition to a cell phone, and use the "Alpha Paging" option? Thanks, Peter To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
