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by sysadman

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Is there any software that will notify my Skytel Pager by Motorola when my NT4 or W2K servers have a problem? It is capable of receiving email.

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by joseph moore

I use IPMonitor to do this. It can monitor a Windows box in multiple ways. I check my LAN servers this way.
Some servers, I have IPMonitor just PING them. If the PINGs fail, it notifies me.
I also check only if Services are running on other servers. For example, I monitor the SERVER service on my PDC (it is also my WINS server, so I monitor the WINS service).
If either service were to Stop, then I get an alert from IPMonitor. Now, the PDC can still be up (and answer PINGs) so I won't get analert due to that. But if WINS fails, I get an alert specifically tailored to that event.

IPMonitor can send e-mail (it has its own SMTP engine). I can also send a numeric page (over a modem), do NET SEND broadcast messages over your network, trigger an SNMP trap, and several other things.
A very very good product.

www.deepmetrix.com

PS: no, I don't work for them, but I have used this product at 2 different companies now over the past 3 years.

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