Notification Using a Numeric Pager

You can configure InterMapper to use alphanumeric modem paging to send messages to numeric pagers.

To send numeric pages, follow these three basic steps:

  1. Create a new paging service.
  2. Create one or more paging subscribers to receive the numeric pages.
  3. Edit the notification message as you normally would. Any non-numeric characters are removed.

Step 1: Create a new paging service:

  1. From the Edit menu, choose Server Settings...
  2. In the Server Settings window, click to choose Notifier List.
  3. Click Add... to create a new notifier.
  4. From the Notifier Type dropdown menu, choose Alpha-numeric Pager (Dialup).
  5. From Subscriber dropdown menu, choose Edit List... The Modem Pager Settings window appears.
  6. In the Paging Services tab, click Add. A New Service appears in the Paging Services list, and an information form for the new service appears at the right.
  7. In the Name box, enter a name for the new service.
  8. Leave the service telephone number blank. (This is what tells InterMapper to do numeric paging instead of alpha-numeric paging.)
  9. Data bits, stop bits, parity, and baud rate are irrelevant and may be set to anything legal.
  10. Leave the modem init string at the default, ATE0V1.
  11. Choose the desired modem. You may create more than one such service, if you want.

Step 2: Create one or more paging subscribers:

  1. Click the Paging Subscribers tab and create the paging subscriber(s) who will use numeric paging.
  2. Set the service field to use the service created in the steps above.
  3. Set the pager id to be the phone number used to dial the pager. To the pager id/phone number, append enough of your modem's pause characters (for most modems, this is a comma) to make sure that InterMapper waits until the call has been answered and any introductory message played to send the tones with the numeric message. This varies from service to service.

Step 3: Edit the message as you normally would:

When creating a notifier based on numeric pager subscribers, edit the message as you normally would, using the InterMapper macros if you so desire. When the page is sent, all non-numeric characters will be removed. So, the message:

DOWN: 192.168.1.132

   becomes

1921681132

Future versions of InterMapper may contain new macros to provide numeric codes for common events.

Paging Log File

The paging log file is a special file which receives logging of all paging traffic and messages, including the details of the modem commands and text written and read. The information in this log may help you or Dartware Technical Support to troubleshoot paging if it is not working correctly.

To start logging this traffic, use the Log Files panel of the Server Settings window to create a log file named Paging (The log file name will be "Paging<date>.txt") Logging continues until the log file is removed through the Log Files panel.