Re: Setting up a pager

["Mike Baird" <mbaird@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> At 07:08 AM 6/10/97 +0100, Simon Redmond wrote:
> >The other day my manager whilst walking past the mess I call a desk,
dumped
> >a new pager on my desk and said 'Here set this up so I get a message
when
> >there is a problem with over night processing'.
> 
> Unless you have a slew of other Help/Systems products, I would recommend
> AGAINST using Robot/Alert.  It's only function is to send a page... it
does
> not have any functions to monitor QSYSOPR or other system functions. 
Other
> Help/Systems products work well with Robot/Alert.

This is true, but you can still use it effectively by itself.  You can
create the monitoring functions and have them use the ALERT commands to
send the pager messages.  When I worked at a location that had these
products, we used it both ways - with CONSOLE and by itself.

Mike


Mike Baird                      mbaird@infinet.com
Dublin, OH                      http://www.infinet.com/~mbaird
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