Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I'll probably implement a dialup to an ISP because my cell phone service doesn't support Tapi or SMS.
Peter > Peter, > > I was of the same mind a few months back. The config I went for is > attaching a modem to the servers alive machine and configuring SA to > send an SMS message to my mobile phone when the mail servers are down. > > I also have another instance of SA at a VPN connected site whose sole > job is to ping the main site SA server. This machine also has a modem > attached and if the main SA machine shows as down it will also SMS my > mobile phone. > > The second install of SA is the ten checks version which I believe can > be ran without purchase (If I'm wrong I owe Dirk some money :-) > > I can confirm that this works and has had me on site in time to resolve > issues before every man and his dog gets involved. > > Hope this is of some assistance. > > Cheers > > Stephen > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > We've also attached a modem to our SA machine, we just have it call our > cell phones. The only thing configured for this alert are our Gateways, > Firewalls, and SMTP servers, so if we see that number calling us, we > know something really, really bad happened. > > Hey Dirk, speaking of this, have you ever thought about implementing > playing WAV files over a voice modem? It would be nice if SA could call > you and play a prerecorded WAV file depending on the alert. > > There's even an ActiveX control out there in the public space that would > make this easy to implement. It was a commercial product, but it's > since been released under the Mozilla Public License. Here are the > links: > > http://www.turbopower.com/products/apax/TAPI/ > http://sourceforge.net/projects/tpapro/ > > Thanks, > Kevin >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > 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 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > We have used as an alternate email a dialup account. Requires a data > line to the PC, and another account though. We have used Budget > Dialup as an alternate ISP. It's a pre-pay solution, so no monthly > bills, and you can buy as little as 10 hours at a time. Their email > server is slow, so once the dialup connection is made we point to > our corporate email providers SMTP server. > > > > Michael Shook > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/14/03 11:42AM >>> > 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
