As a long time AIX admin this is an area that I personally have seen evolve
substantially over the last few years.  Way back when (1989 or so) we used
Telebit Trailblazers w/ UUCP configs to call our paging companies computer
and page us, but this was very unreliable and a pain to setup.  Then came
some of the freeware and commercial products.  I am drawing a blank on the
name of paging software we used for years but support for it finally
dropped.  I have used one commercial product: SPatch with good success, but
lately I have found the easiest thing to do is just enable sendmail enough
to be able to send emails and send them to PIN AT PAGINGCO DOT NET.  This has
worked for me since about 1995 or so when connections to the Net started
coming ubiquitious.  You do have a couple of points of failures for this so
it may not meet your needs, depending on circusmstances. (Example: you are
monitoring internet connections and need someone paged if they go down).

For most every config I have ever set up a 2400 baud modem seems to be the
minimum.  That shouldn't be hard to find!  :)

For Spatch contact: www.spatch.com or 770-495-0718

Hope this helped.
> ----------
> From:         Brook, Bryan S[SMTP:bryan.s.brook AT LMCO DOT COM]
> Reply To:     Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
> Sent:         Monday, December 21, 1998 10:34 AM
> To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
> Subject:      Hardware configuration required to page/beep someone?
>
> We are trying to set up paging (beeping) when we get certain traps but we
> have never done this.  I found the software to do this (fbeep), but I have
> no idea what configurations we need to do hardware-wise.
>
> Do we hook up a modem to a serial line?  What type of modem?  Any
> suggestions?  I saw mention of the IXO protocol.  Is this what is
> typically
> used?
>
> Much Appreciation,
>
> Bryan
>