[61979] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alert to Phone/Pager System
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Christell)
Fri Sep 12 09:57:35 2003
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:56:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Todd Christell" <tchristell@springnet.net>
To: <allan@allan.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309111736460.4666-100000@ns1.vbind.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Reply-To: tchristell@springnet.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Vytek makes a product called Telalert that works for us. Been around for
quite a while and runs on Linux.
www.vytek.com
--
Todd Christell
Network Manager
SpringNet
www.springnet.net
417.831.8688
>
>
> I am looking for a hardware/software solution to a problem and I am
> hoping someone has implemented something similar:
>
> A monitoring system notices an error and sends an alert to a system (the
> alert can be sent over POTS or SMTP). The system recevies the alert
> and sends out a message (Pager/POTS/SMTP/SMS) to a group of people in a
> pager rotation. The 1st person is paged, if no response is received
> the second person is paged and so on down the line until someone
> responds.
>
> I looked at the Dialogic's The Communicator:
>
> http://www.dccusa.com/products.html
>
> But, it is a little pricey. I also looked at VOCP System:
>
> http://www.vocpsystem.com/
>
> But, the desision maker is a little skittish about open source projects.
>
> Does anyone know of a happy medium between these two systems that will
> fill the requirements outlined above?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> allan
> --
> Allan Liska
> allan@allan.org
> http://www.allan.org