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Re: Out-of-band paging
From: Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:38:52 -0500
Joe Greco wrote:
From my point of view, my ideal alerting system is probably somethinglike a smartphone running an app that's connected to the network monitoring system, and can tell me: 1) when it has lost that connection, and 2) whatever problems the network monitoring system chooses to let me know about.
I use the triple approach myself. Old fashioned TAP line, helpdesk notifications (they have plenty of methods of contacting me), and an out of band hard relay alarm that goes to the telco operators.
Some methods use direct circuits to neighboring town's fiber node, some things use the local town's fiber node, both taking different paths. It's extremely hard to get fully isolated. Monitoring server even has it's own separate UPS, though I really need to just throw an offsite redundant monitoring server up.
The app solution is one I actually believe to be the best method, but I'm a poor country folk and smart isn't exactly what I'd call this little phone.
Jack
Current thread:
- Re: Out-of-band paging (was: Web expert ...) Joel M Snyder (Jul 28)
- Re: Out-of-band paging (was: Web expert ...) Brandon Ross (Jul 28)
- Re: Out-of-band paging (was: Web expert ...) Joe Greco (Jul 28)
- Re: Out-of-band paging Joel M Snyder (Jul 28)
- Re: Out-of-band paging Leo Bicknell (Jul 28)
- Re: Out-of-band paging Martin Hepworth (Jul 28)
- Re: Out-of-band paging Chris Adams (Jul 28)
- Re: Out-of-band paging Joe Greco (Jul 28)
- Re: Out-of-band paging Jack Bates (Jul 28)
- Re: Out-of-band paging (was: Web expert ...) Joe Greco (Jul 28)
- Re: Out-of-band paging Steve Gibbard (Jul 28)
- Re: Out-of-band paging (was: Web expert ...) Brandon Ross (Jul 28)