RE: Sending messages to Pager

This is where Messenger Plus and similar products earn there keep.

Not only will they send the message, you can set them up so that the message 
must be acknowledged with XX mins or the page will be sent again; either to the 
same receiver or somebody else.

Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dwayne Allison
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 4:37 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Sending messages to Pager
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> We have the when to inplace now.  We currently send messages 
> to our operator cellphone.  But he says that he is in a 
> location where sometime he does not get the text message that 
> the backup has failed.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 3:30 PM
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> Subject: Re: Sending messages to Pager
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> Most of them accept email.  If so, then you could use SNDDST 
> to test.  You 
> might have to go into WRKDIRE and use F19 to set up a valid 
> email account.
> 
> There are times when the email is not an accepted method.  
> That is for a 
> few situations like disk exceeding threshold.  At that time, 
> the system 
> automatically shuts down SMTP to slow the fill of disk space. 
>  You might 
> want to then look at paging software.  Byteware is very 
> popular, along 
> with ROBOT, LXI and a host of others.  I had a very bad 
> experience with 
> LXI and Arch if I had it to do all over again I'd go with Byteware. 
> There's a lot more to these packages other then the actual 
> send.  Like 
> what message queues to monitor, which messages to ignore, 
> other situations 
> to page for, etc.
> 
> Rob Berendt
> -- 
> Group Dekko Services, LLC
> Dept 01.073
> PO Box 2000
> Dock 108
> 6928N 400E
> Kendallville, IN 46755
> http://www.dekko.com
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> How do you send a message to a pager from the AS/400?
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