Re: debian and MCI paging problem...
My advice to you is to not use their web interface. Somewhere they have a dial-up number for a special modem connection which uses a protocol known as IXO. Then all you need is a modem attached to the box which will be sending the pages. I can give you the software which will send a page (it even has a spooler). Then you can send pages with 'tpage someone "here's a bunch of text"'. I've also got a web front end to this program which I can send you (just a quick-hack perl cgi, I'm sure you could do better). david oswald wrote: Hello all... Here's what I need to do. I have a Debian box and various processes running on it that check various platforms (hp, aix...) for different configurations that we monitor. Such as file system capacity... - once we reach 95%, we want to send a page to the right guy/gal. I don't think this should be terribly difficult... You see we are using MCI's paging service over the web already. We have taken this code (java-script) and used it in house and created a little menu of available persons to simplify the paging operation. HOWEVER this methods requires manual intervention through someone's browser of choice. I have created a script providing the pin # and the message (which is no problem) but HOW do I pass this information back to MCI to get it processed if I'm not using a web based browser to fill in the message fields. Is this something that I am over looking the obvious - I hope so... I have provided the MCI Paging page http://www.mci.com/connections/interact/sendpage/sendpage.shtml) , so that you can get an idea of what I am dealing with, I hope I have made it clear that it is our desire to automate the creation of the paging operation through shells scripts, and NOT using a browser to fill in these pages for us. I have also attached the _javascript_ (mci.htm) which does some of this work for us but again it can only be used from a browser. I began to think something like telnet to www.mci.com:80 and interact with it that way ?! I need some advice here... Any help appreciated ... Thanx in advance... Send a Page Employee: (Select an Employee Name)Last_name1, First_name1Last_name2, First_name2Last_name3, First_name3Last_name4, First_name4 Text Message (maximum of 240 alpha-numeric characters for most paging services) -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian and MCI paging problem...
david oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have created a script providing the pin # and the message (which is no problem) but HOW do I pass this information back to MCI to get it processed if I'm not using a web based browser to fill in the message fields. Is this something that I am over looking the obvious - I hope so... Two ideas; both depend on non-interactive ways to call lynx and have it send form data. Something like: (sorry about the long line) lynx -dump http://www.mci.com/cgi-bin/sendpage.cgi?pin=234567textMessage=this%20is%20a%20test%0D%0Asecond%20line.%0D%0A; Will probably work. Either that, or this little perl script that calls lynx (there are probably Perl modules that'll do this for you, but I couldn't find them). #!/usr/bin/perl use URI::Escape; ($pin, $message) = @ARGV; open(LYNXOUT, |lynx -post_data http://www.mci.com/cgi-bin/sendpage.cgi;); print LYNXOUT 'pin=', uri_escape($pin), 'textMessage=', uri_escape($message); The difference between the two is that the long lynx line issues a GET request to the host, while the perl script has lynx issuing a POST request. The form as MCI has it causes the browser to issue a POST command, though it shouldn't make any difference to the cgi program. If you decide that you can use a get request, you may consider using wget instead of lynx; I think it would be faster for you: wget -O - http://www.mci.com/blahblahblah; All these commands will produce as output whatever the mci cgi script spits back to the browser, so you may want to redirect output to /dev/null. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
