$Id: README.paging,v 1.1.1.1 2004/06/09 05:18:06 trockij Exp $ SO YOU WANT MON TO PAGE YOU?? ----------------------------- SOFTWARE It's not the job of mon to page you, but it *does* have the responsibility of triggering an alert program, which can page you. Paging via modem is probably the best way to handle notification, since phone systems usually fail much less than local (and wide) area networks. Think of it as "out-of-band" notification. QuickPage mon ships with a wrapper for QuickPage, which uses a modem to send an alphanumeric page via the IXO/TAP/SNPP (what is it today???) protocol. QuickPage is very simple to configure, supports groups, runs on a number of platforms, and is free. The latest version of QuickPage can be found at ftp.it.mtu.edu:/pub/QuickPage. Tpage Originally maintained by Tom Limoncelli (of INN FAQ fame), tpage was one of the earliest paging progmrams. It doesn't seem to be very well maintained recently, but it's worth having a look at. It supports multiple users and an "on call" schedule (which mon can already do), but its probably worth looking at anyway. It's mostly written in Perl. The last time I looked (Tue Sep 16 09:49:18 PDT 1997), I was not able to locate tpage-2.40.tar.gz :( Have a look at the IXO FAQ for more information, supposedly available from ftp://ftp.airnote.net/pub/paging-info/ixo.faq EMAIL PAGING If your paging company allows you to send pages via electronic mail, you can use the "netpage.alert" script that comes with mon. It just calls sendmail and fires off email to one or more addresses with a specially formatted subject line that should give maximum information in your pager's tiny alpha LCD. To format a page nicely on a tiny LCD, you may have to play with end of line characters. For example, pagenet pagers seem to ignore any EOL sequences other than just a plain \r A reminder--you might not want to rely on the network to send you a message if the network is down :)