I use the text message alert system however I would love a better way. Let me know what you come up with? Sorry I cant be of more help. What system are you using to send the alerts? Are you looking for suggestions on alternative delivery methods or the authenticity of genuine alerts. For example, I have a mailbox set up just to receive all waht's up gold alerts. If anything is down even for a second I get an alert. However it gives a lot of false posatives. Most alerts are more genuine if the threshold is set to 5 minutes or something like that. What's up gold also has dependencies so for example, if a switch goes down and at the same time all the nodes associated with that switch are unresponsive then WUG sends the alert for teh switch only. Feel free to ask if you have any questions. Regards Darragh Ó Héiligh Fujitsu Offices of the Houses of the Oireachtas, Fredrick Building, South Fredrick Street, Dublin2 Telephone: +353 (1) 618 3559 Email: darragh.oheiligh@oireachtas.ie Internet: http://www.oireachtas.ie From: Ryan Shugart <rshugart@pcisys.net> To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>, Date: 28/09/2012 14:54 Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] out of hours notifications? Sent by: "Blind-sysadmins" <blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Hi: I was wondering what procedures you all used for out of hours critical monitoring alerts? For example, say a server you're responsible for goes down at 2:30 Sunday morning, how do you get notified? My company currently has a rotating company phone that goes around the department and gets text messages for every down system. The person on call is then responsible for finding the responsible person and waking them up to inform them of the problem. The system we're going to will involve pages going direct to our phones for systems we're responsible for. I'm personally thinking that will be better because right now being on call is far from a fun experience, and its rare you get a good night's sleep. In otherwords, our environment is just getting too big for one person to manage after hours alerts, and with pages going to each of us, its felt we can handle them better since we'll know our own systems. Thoughts, does anyone use a different approach? Thanks. Ryan _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins Oireachtas email policy and disclaimer. http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/about/oireachtasemailpolicyanddisclaimer... Beartas ríomhphoist an Oireachtais agus séanadh. http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/ga/eolas/beartasriomhphoistanoireachtais...