testing modem for qpage

[Potter, G M (Greg)]

Sorry about the line wrap.  I use exchange and
sometimes (often?) forget to insert returns.
Looking at the queue is a good idea, it actually
tells me more about what I am interested in, mainly
that pages are not going out.  Rather than just that
the modem is not working.  There could be more
reasons than a faulty modem, i.e. that the cellular
service no longer accepts TAP/IXO messages, etc...
I think two services for the pager would be best, 
using John Jolet's suggestion for monitoring the
process with check_proc.

Thanks for the tips!

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: C. Bensend [mailto:benny at bennyvision.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 12:00 AM
> To: Nagios-users (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] testing modem for qpage
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 03:20:26PM -0600, Potter, G M (Greg) wrote:
> > 
> > I have been doing some preliminary testing using qpage, but 
> it looks like qpage returns a status of 0 regardless of the 
> page going through or not.  My initial thought was to set up 
> the pager as a host and have the check interval set to one 
> week.  I can live with one page a week for the knowledge that 
> the pager is still functional.  But It seems like it would be 
> better to check more frequently, if possible without actually 
> sending the page.  I suppose one could write a script to open 
> the port and use expect/send to communicate with the modem to 
> verify it was still "alive".  Has anyone looked at this and 
> come up with a solution?
> 
> Wow, please wrap your lines.  ;)
> 
> While this would be a hack, you might set up a local test that checks
> the qpage _queue_, looking for any failure messages.  That, I think,
> would be easier than trying to poke deeper into qpage.  Hopefully,
> that would be sufficient for you.
> 
> Benny
> 
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