Re: Paging from Power System running IBM i

I'd highly recommend purchasing a package to do this....

I've always used Bytware's MessengerPlus...
http://www.bytware.com/products/mp/index.html

It can handle numeric or text pagers, plus cell phone text messaging and email.

The notification component is just a secondary piece of the package.
The real meat is the monitoring.

The price was always reasonable...

Charles

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:58 PM, John Allen <jallen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks for the suggestions, I will check if they offer an SMTP gateway as it
appears that is as simple as sending an eMail.
I will have to bring up the fact it will require more "things" to be running
(up) and see what management thinks.


Thanks again

John


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Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 7:51 AM
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Subject: Re: Paging from Power System running IBM i

OK If you're not allowed to use a modem off the Power System, "because it
may be down," I would wonder what is still going to be up?? I have
configured cellular modems on IBM i using Byteware to page specifically
because that way the only thing that still has to be up is IBM i and the
cell modem.  The entire rest of the facility could be smoking rubble at that
point.

I agree with Vern's idea to use an SMTP gateway if available as that's
usually easy but think of all the stuff that has to be 'UP' for that to
work??  [Your ISP, comm lines, router, firewall, network switches, Power
system, more network switches, mail server and that's just on your end!]

    - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

On 2/24/2012 7:36 AM, Vern Hamberg wrote:

Hi John

Just did a quick search for Unication - I think they are only the
manufacturers of the pagers - they don't seem to provide the pager

service.

So, as Eric suggested, find out who the service provider is, and find
out whether they have that SMTP gateway - I suspect that most services
offer it, considering that modems are so rare these days.

Good luck
Vern

On 2/23/2012 4:42 PM, John Allen wrote:

Believe it or not we have a customer that has employees carrying
pagers
(Hospital)

Their employees carry pagers by Unication.



Instead of us emailing notifications of system messages/issues they
want us to sending via a page.



Does anyone have any ideas on how one would start looking into how to
do this (I have to write a program)

Not allowed to use a modem off the Power System because it may be down.

Are there any example programs or freeware available for this?



Or does anyone know someone with the knowledge to write the
program(s) for us.

(Nice project for an unemployed programmer)



I know there are 3rd party vendors that have software that can do
this but this is not allowed.



Thanks



John

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