TelAlert's Old Homepage

26 Apr 1996

TelAlert is the SCS networking group's automated paging system, maintained by wendling@slac. It is intended to provide automated paging in response to networking and computing problems. Currently TelAlert is setup to be used only by members of the SCS staff.

Alpha pages can be sent via TelAlert from any SCS supported UNIX workstation as follows:
```
    prompt% /afs/slac/common/etc/telalert -i wendling -m "hi mike"
```
-i indicates the [i]ndividual being paged. The naming convention is the person's UNIX user id. If the user has a numeric pager the name will be the UNIX id followed by "numericpager", i.e., "wendlingnumericpager".
-m indicates the [m]essage being sent. Multiple word messages should be enclosed in double quotes.
```
         Note:  The "-m" option must be the last option on the command line.
```

If you are on a machine at SLAC you can use a web form to send alphanumeric pages using TelAlert.

You may find it convenient to add lines such as follow to your .login file on UNIX:

	setenv PATH ${PATH}:/afs/slac/common/etc
	rehash

Then you can send pages simply by giving the command:

	prompt% telalert -i wendling -m "hi mike"

You may find it convenient to add lines such as follow to your .cshrc file on UNIX:

	alias pagemike '/afs/slac/common/etc/telalert -i wendling -m '

Then you can send pages simply by giving the command:

	prompt% pagemike "call me at x2294 -mike"

From the SLACVX OpenVMS cluster you can send the same messages with "sendpage" command:

	$ sendpage -i wendling -m "hi mike"

SLAC's alpha pagers include 150 pages/month for the flat fee. Additional pages are charged a rate of $0.10 each.

*NOTE* All pages sent through TelAlert are logged and should not be considered private.

A complete overview of the TelAlert notification system can be found on the Telamon homepage.
TelAlert also has a dial-in feature that allows users to acknowledge receipt of a trouble alert, thereby preventing the notification of others. Users of numeric pagers can get additional information about a page by dialing into TelAlert. For more information contact Mike Wendling

Wendling