Re: alarms and autodialers

[Tim Mooney <mooney@aps.anl.gov>]

"Peregrine M. McGehee" wrote:

> We are looking for an autodialer solution that would
> allow our EPICS system to notify key individuals when
> critical system errors occurred.
> 
> At first pass, our requirements are:
> 
> 1. receives a notification by ethernet with several possible conditions
> 2. dials several numbers
> 3. passes the appropriate voice message to each dialed number
> 
> The first requirement is only due to the need to have non-EPICS
> systems the ability to send their own alarms. This could
> be replaced with suitable use of the CA client library.
> 
> Any one know of such a thing?

The closest approximation I know of is Kurt Goetze's
(goetze@aps.anl.gov) pvMail program, which monitors a PV and sends email
to a preselected address (typically, the address of an email pager) when
the PV value satisfies preselected criteria.  I'd guess the rest of the
job can be done by commercially available software, but I don't actually
know of software that does it.
 
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Tim Mooney (mooney@aps.anl.gov) (630)252-5417
Beamline Controls & Data Acquisition Group
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab