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- From: g_fierlbeck@decus.ch
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.management.decmcc
- Subject: Re: Wanted: MCC alarm command procedures to dial pagers
- Summary: A possible mcc pager solution.
- Keywords: mcc pager ai mrx x25
- Message-ID: <2377.2b0a8dc4@decus.ch>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:34:32 GMT
- References: <9211171542.AA26683@aitgw.ge.com>
- Organization: DECUS (Switzerland)
- Lines: 45
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- In article <9211171542.AA26683@aitgw.ge.com>, "Ron Panetta, GE-ELAB, 8*256-2555" <PANETTA@ELAB.dnet.ge.com> writes:
- > Has anyone developed MCC alarm scripts (command procedures) that dial a
- > pager (or telephone number for that mater) upon an alarm condition. Possible
- > hardware interfaces might include DECtalk or any of the Hayes compatible
- > modems. The DECtalk could actually convey a synthesized message while the
- > Hayes compatable modem would only be able to provide DTMF tones signalling
- > an "encrypted" message on a digital pager.
- >
- > Haven't actually given much thought to what's involved in either of these two
- > cases but it seems like somebody must have already done this. In my case,
- > I'm only interested in dialing a digital pager and providing the "encrypted"
- > message.
-
- I have set up MCC to send notifications to a pager, depending upon a simple
- evaluation of alarm severity. The severity and appropriate action to be taken
- is determined by the DECnet (IV) events that occur and the context within
- which they occur, as well as other input -- (this evaluation is something that
- I would really like to improve upon...)
-
- The 'PROCEDURE=' rule parameter is a slightly modified version of the
- supplied alarm script. Within it, messages may be dispatched to an SNS
- monitor, or a DCL 'alarm' command may be issued (part of an extensive
- 'dark' site control and monitoring system that we have written).
-
- In the 'issue alarm' case, the command defined in the DCL tables on the
- MCC workstation essentially causes the command parms to be sent, using
- a normal prog. lang. i/f, to a process on another cluster. This second
- process (declared as a network object) takes all messages passed to it
- and furthers them to a third VAX that runs an MRX Gateway. These are then
- sent via X.25 to a national paging service that furthers them on our behalf
- to the PTT which maintains a pager transmitter network.
-
- This might be a little more complicated than what you intend on building,
- but its works very well for us and is quite flexible.
-
- -Hope it helps.
-
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