March 30, 2006 at 8:30 am
I am a consultant at a casino and need some advise. My client needs to be able to send failure notifications or alerts to various operators. The problem is that this server, by law, cannot be connected to the outside world. They can get to a modem to send out pages/text message but without a mail server, IIS, etc. I don't see how to do this.
Any and all suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks
March 30, 2006 at 10:04 am
You have to find out how they can automatically send pages if it is could be done automatically. If this is the case you can output messages into text files in a particluar directory and have a script running as a Windows task checking this folder every 10 min and sending pages
Regards,Yelena Varsha
April 3, 2006 at 9:49 am
Set up monitoring on another server that can use mail. Use linked servers to read events, histories etc on the monitored machine(s) and send emails from the monitoring server.
April 3, 2006 at 1:55 pm
That would involve an illegal connection to the monitored server.
If you could find a Unix geek that was frozen in a glacier 20 some years ago with his 286 Xenix box and a (shudder) serial terminal, he could solve this problem in a few minutes with a little uucp and sendmail. It would be trivial to set something up to periodically send things out over a modem, but ignore any connection attempts from the outside world. He would probably laugh derisively at the notion that overblown Exchange and IIS servers are necessary to communicate.
It's been about 20 years since I was sucked into the M$ tarpit, but surely Linux couldn't have lost all those capabilities.
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