What I would personally do would be to write a script to test the server with a telnet or something, or even get the status from hobbit, and if it's ok, send the message, if not, send it somewhere else. Then the alert can just call that script with the proper arguments and go from there.
Tod Hansmann Network Engineer
-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 8:50 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] fallback alert service
On Nov 14, 2007 9:22 AM, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
I've used the txt.att.com for a couple of years and not once missed any alerts or notifications of voicemail. I really can't help you beyond this point. Though I would yell at my mobile provider if that was my situation!
I think what Joost is saying is that, when his email server/gateway goes down there's no way to send email to his pager to let him know...
Joost - could you get your messages out by posting to a web page?? I did that some time back by going to the relevant web page, extracting the form, filling in the message, then posting it back. Once I had the method sorted out, I could just post the form without the tedious prior steps. Curl is pretty good for that - it handles http, https, proxies, authentication, etc.
Ralph Mitchell
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