software to page me

[Gerald Combs]

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Eric Rossiter wrote:

> Anyway.... I need some help... I need to find an app that will page me
> or call my cell when a service or server dies here at work.
> 
> I have NetSaint up and running and monitoring hosts and services.  It
> sends email to me now, but I don't think it has the capabilities to page
> a phone or pager.  Does anyone know?  Will NetSaint do that in
> conjunction w/a 3rd party app?

I use qpage (http://www.qpage.org).  After setting up pager definitions in
qpage I had to add a Netsaint command definition, like so:

command[host-notify-by-qpage]=/usr/local/qpage/bin/qpage -f NetSaint -p
$CONTACTPAGER$ 'Host "$HOSTALIAS$" is $HOSTSTATE$!'

You also have to add "host-notify-by-qpage" to each contact definition
along with their qpage pager name.

On a semi-related note, does anyone know of paging software that will fail
over from one method to another, e.g. first try SNPP, then fail over to a
modem if the SNPP server is unreachable?  TelAlert will do this, but it's
way overpriced.