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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>I still use and love qpage <A href="http://www.qpage.org/">http://www.qpage.org/</A> with Nagios.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Your best bet is to also attach a modem to your system and let it dial out to the gateways. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><A href="http://www.notepage.net/tap-phone-numbers-u.htm">http://www.notepage.net/tap-phone-numbers-u.htm</A></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>This site provides a central spot for TAP gateway numbers and SNPP systems. Use your Nagios parent configuration to send snpp when the Internet is working and fall back to TAP modem pages when your system can no longer reach the net.</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>It's the only modem I still have in use but it works great every time for sending out those text messages and pagers. </DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Derrick</DIV></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> owner-nanog@merit.edu on behalf of Randy Epstein<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wed 4/16/2008 1:22 PM<BR><B>To:</B> 'David Ulevitch'; nanog@merit.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days)<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>David Ulevitch wrote:<BR><BR><snip><BR><BR>> What else are operators doing to get the pages out when things go wonky?<BR><BR>Get a pager! :) SMS is just not as reliable.<BR><BR>> David<BR><BR>Randy<BR><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>