> We use email notification (patches for which I have posted here in the past -
> very simple). It would be trivial to convert this into pager notification
> assuming you have an email->pager gateway program of some kind.
> I have used the expect contributed alpha-pager script for delivering email
> to pagers in the past without difficulty.
and I use tpaged to send automated notifications. Getting tpage to
work with the various pagers we use was a challenge, but it basically
works. You can find the section in ip_monitor.tcl that mentions the
color red, flashing, and the word "unreachable"... =-) and just
add a few system calls to the paging program there. (also a good
place to insert noise making devices, like playing a .au file or
whatever.
One problem I'm working on is getting tkined/scotty to understand the
idea of "link" going down. Most of our wan link are redundant, so if
a line goes down, the remote site is not unreachable. I'll probably
have to go around tkined for this one, and have the router logs generate
notification. (it would neat to do it inside tkined though, so you
could flash the link line in red!)
If anyone has tried this, I'd be interested in hearing your results.
Also, if anyone wants a copy of my ip_monitor.tcl just let me know.
davec