On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 08:32 -0400, Manocchia, Robert wrote:

I need to alert via a numeric page when a red alert happens for certain services (conn, disk etc…). The page number has the following format:

<areacode><number>@page.provider.com

Yes, you would just use it as a typical email address, however I would also recommend setting up something like quickpage(qpage) to send pages out via and local TAP or 800 TAP depending on your pager provider. At least use this to send you pages if your mailserver goes down or have issue sending out emails, this way you still get your pages and know of problems. It does require a modem and phone line to be attahced to your hobbbit server. THis has saved us a few times when having network and and mail server issues.

Thanks Trent

We successfully send pages out via sendmail regularly via a script on another server.

How do I incorporate this method into Hobbit. Do I just use the MAIL keyword in hobbit-alerts.cfg or is there something else I need to do.

I’ve checked out all the documentation but cannot get a clue what to do.

Robert Manocchia

UNIX System Administrator

IDEXX Laboratories

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EMail Robert-Manocchia at idexx.com