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:
- Create a new paging service.
- Create one or more paging subscribers to receive the numeric pages.
- Edit the notification message as you normally would. Any non-numeric characters
are removed.
Step 1: Create a new paging service:
- From the Edit menu, choose Server Settings...
- In the Server Settings window, click to choose Notifier List.
- Click Add... to create a new notifier.
- From the Notifier Type dropdown menu, choose Alpha-numeric
Pager (Dialup).
- From Subscriber dropdown menu, choose Edit List... The
Modem Pager Settings window appears.
- 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.
- In the Name box, enter a name for the new service.
- Leave the service telephone number blank. (This is what tells InterMapper
to do numeric paging instead of alpha-numeric paging.)
- Data bits, stop bits, parity, and baud rate are irrelevant and may be set
to anything legal.
- Leave the modem init string at the default, ATE0V1.
- Choose the desired modem. You may create more than one such service, if
you want.
Step 2: Create one or more paging subscribers:
- Click the Paging Subscribers tab and create the paging subscriber(s)
who will use numeric paging.
- Set the service field to use the service created in the steps above.
- 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.