The assignments change weekly and each engineer has a different set of servers, so we need something dynamic that ties into the existing system of alerts, but that can be customized by the engineer monitoring...
David Bruck Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Stone <[email protected]> Sender: Servers Alive Discussion List <[email protected]>Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2013 00:15:59 To: Servers Alive Discussion List<[email protected]> Reply-To: Servers Alive Discussion List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [SA-list] SA and Lync Would a custom web page work for that? With some scripting you could have it play a sound on status change. -kevin > On Dec 7, 2013, at 1:00 PM, "David Bruck" <[email protected]> wrote: > > We were using instant messaging for a long time to alert the engineers during > the day, on the specific servers they were responsible for. With the > problems encountered with IMing, that hasn't remained feasible. We are > moving to Lync in the future, but no idea when. > > If there was a way that an engineer could run an agent/service to connect to > the SA instance and only pick/choose what he/she wanted to see on his screen, > that would be a huge help to us. Right now, the alerts are setup and this > works, and has always worked. But - if each engineer could have a little > agent that polls the server for "their" items and notate it on their screen > with a sound, pop-up, color change of icon or something, that would be > tremendous and IMing wouldn't be necessary. > > > David Bruck > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Stone <[email protected]> > Sender: Servers Alive Discussion List <[email protected]>Date: Sat, 07 Dec > 2013 18:45:54 > To: Servers Alive Discussion List<[email protected]> > Reply-To: Servers Alive Discussion List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [SA-list] SA and Lync > > 2013 is the current version and REST is so much easier than MS API's so that > would be the logical choice. Not a huge fan of most MS enterprise products > but Lync has been very good. > > I look forward to seeing IF this happens... > > -kevin > >> On Dec 7, 2013, at 6:45 AM, "Dirk Bulinckx" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> IF we go for a Lync alert, then we have to go for something that is current >> and/or using some type of standard. >> Seems like Lync2013 is using a protocol called REST, so it looks like the >> most obvious to do is to focus on Lync 2013 and the REST protocol. >> As said "IF"....so don't see this as a promise that we will have a Lync >> alert. >> >> >> Dirk Bulinckx >> Servers Alive - http://www.woodstone.nu >> StellarDNS (DNS Hosting) - http://www.stellardns.com >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of Hanson, Brett >> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 9:31 PM >> To: Servers Alive Discussion List >> Subject: RE: [SA-list] SA and Lync >> >> We are using version 2010 and don't currently have any plans to upgrade. >> >> >> Brett >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of Dirk Bulinckx >> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 7:01 AM >> To: Servers Alive Discussion List >> Subject: [SA-list] SA and Lync >> >> For those of you who wanted to have (and still want :-)) Lync as alerting >> method in SA....could you tell me what version of Lync you're using and/or >> if you plan to migrate to a newer version of Lync? >> >> >> >> -- >> Dirk Bulinckx >> Servers Alive - http://www.woodstone.nu >> DNS Hosting on StellarDNS - http://www.stellardns.com >> >> To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to >> [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office >> messages), make sure that they are not sent to the list nor to individual >> members. 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