SPUG: Perl alert system which will call me

Dan Ebert mathin at mathin.com
Fri Aug 30 11:27:52 CDT 2002


Could you have it send an email to a pager or cell phone?

Dan.

On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 09:12, Peter Darley wrote:
> Friends,
> 	I'm looking at writing a Perl script that will monitor a machine from a
> remote location and perform an alert when it detects a problem.
> Unfortunately there's no grantee that I'll be checking my email at the time
> when something may go down, so I would like the machine to give me a call
> and let me know that something is wrong.  I see that there's a module for
> controlling voice modems (Modem::Vgetty), witch makes me thing that perhaps
> someone has already written something like this?  Thought I would ask y'all
> before getting started, as I can't find anything on SourceForge or Google,
> and y'all seem to know just about everything. :)
> Thanks,
> Peter Darley
> 
> 
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