[BBLISA] A summary: emergency pagers

[Ryan Pugatch]

Here is a summary of solutions mentioned in response to my posting to 
BBLISA and SAGE:

- Dean Anderson mentions this article: 
http://www.linuxjournal.com/files/linuxjournal.com/ufiles/LJ191_UsingSMSforNagios.pdf 
which involves using an SMS device to interface with Nagios.  The 
MultiTech device in the article is mentioned by Daniel Rich.

- Lukas Karlsson uses QuickPage - http://www.qpage.org/ with a modem and 
POTS line.  There were a few others suggesting qpage as well.

- Derek Balling suggests the Siemens TC65T - several others recommend 
using an old cell phone or modem to send the texts directly.

- Jens Link and Daniel Rich mentioned the decreasing lack of support for 
TAP (and also lack of support for WCTP)

- Several suggestions about having multiple types of notification in 
case one fails.

- Brian de Smet suggests www.pagerduty.com but Phil Pennock said his 
colleague had encountered some trouble with them.

- A couple of people mentioned that AT&T has an enterprise paging option 
that gives you an SLA for your texts.  http://enterprisepaging.com/faq.jsp


I hope I didn't miss any of the suggestions.

I think the route I am going to go is to grab a MultiTech iSMS and put 
it on to AT&T with an enterprise paging plan.  Then I can have big 
brother use the API to send messages.


Thanks all for your suggestions.

Ryan