[BBLISA] A summary: emergency pagers

[Internaut at Large]

Greetings,

On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 12:06 -0400, Rudie, Tony wrote:
> As a member of the Deaf community I would want that to be an option, not an exclusive direction. 

Hrm ... interesting thought.  I know next to nothing about deaf
communications (I know much more about blind communications ...)
although, I seem to recall that many VoIP solutions allow for TTY as
well.  Come to think of it, wouldn't a TTY "phone" be able to receive
from a computer the equivalent of a page, in real-time?  This might be
even a better solution.

>  - Tony Rudié 

Just thinking,
-dkap

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> Subject: Re: [BBLISA] A summary: emergency pagers
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Something occurred to me in reading this.
> 
> Is there any reason why we can't use text-to-speech?  I mean, have
> Nagios call phones, and read the error, or play a pre-recorded error
> message over the voice-line, and listen for a response?  ("Hit 1 to
> acknowledge you are on the problem, Hang up, or hit 2 to pass this on to
> the next person in the tree." or the like.)
> 
> Especially with VoIP so common nowadays ...
> 
> Just thinking of the future,
> -dkap
> 
> On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 10:26 -0400, Ryan Pugatch wrote:
> > 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
> > 
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