[geeks] Paging software?

[Sridhar Ayengar]

der Mouse wrote:
>> I'm looking for a reasonably solid and capable chunk of paging
>> software to use at work; we're having severe, intermittent problems
>> with our mail relay, and we have this sort of circular problem of
>> needing to send pages via email to let us know that there's a mail
>> relay problem.
> 
> At work, we have a machine with a cellphone connected to it sending
> SMSes to whoever the relevant on-call person is according to the
> on-call schedule we've given it.
> 
> It's not clear whether this would work for you, especially given your
> zero-budget restriction.  For us, it turns out that one cellphone
> "line" and the outgoing SMS costs (I don't know whether we found an
> unlimited plan or whether we pay per-message) is well worth it.  If you
> want, I can find out the software details.  I know we're using nagios
> as a monitoring framework, but I don't remember the names of any of the
> other pieces.

At work, we send short emails to an email-to-SMS gateway provided by 
Verizon Wireless.  Doesn't cost a damn thing.

Peace...  Sridhar