I would not recommend NetView nvpagerd if you are talking about paging for
an entire large enterprise.  We tried to use that, but had performance
problems.  It is also not very scalable and accessible to other systems in
your environment.  We use TelAlert by Telamon and are satisfied with it.  It
runs in a client-server environment and is very scalable.  It is relatively
easy to configure and very very expandable and powerful in a large
enterprise.

Joe Prokott - West Group
Network Architect
610 Opperman Drive
St. Paul, MN  55123
Phone: 651-687-4536
Fax: 651-687-6946
E-mail: joe.prokott AT westgroup DOT com


-----Original Message-----
From: Don Helms [mailto:dhelms AT SW DOT ORG]
Sent: Monday, March 29, 1999 3:34 PM
To: NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
Subject: Re: paging functions


We use both email and direct modem TAPI paging.
If your pager company supports email paging, just
send the message to the pager ID.

For us it's "pager-phone-number"@mobile.att.net
with the text of the email showing up on an
alpha pager.

In our case we use AT&T paging and they're pretty
busy.  The email process takes about 45 minutes to
get the message accepted by their mail system.

Modem dial-up into their system usually sends out
a page in about 1-2 minutes.

-Don

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  From: Philip Guerra <pguerra AT tivoli DOT com>
  Subject: paging functions
  Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 13:56:11 -0600
  To: NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU


> I am a newby so be gentle.  I am running Netview for NT
v.5.1 and have
> never seen the Unix version.  I know that if I want to
send pages to
> notify someone about an event, that there must be a
modem installed and
> nvpager must be configured.  Does the AIX version of
Netview also
> support this except not thru a modem but email?
>
> Philip Guerra
> Netview Deployment Engineer
> Tivoli Systems, Inc.
> IT-Austin
>

---------------End of Original Message-----------------

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Don Helms
Scott & White Hospital
dhelms AT sw DOT org
Date: 03/29/1999

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