Thanks, but this is still looking unlikely. The whole point of this is
to alert me to the internet being down. Since I don't have internet
connectivity at that point I can't send an email or other message to our
cell phones. As this pc has a 56k modem I was hoping I could rig
something to send me some code to my cell when it lost it's internet
connection. I'm grasping at straws now. Frankly all I know is
periodically this machine can't talk to our partner and at that same
time the email it tries to send to my cell saying it lost the connection
fails to send. So the first I know of a problem is when I get a message
saying it's working again.
Will it happen tonight? Will it happen again ever? I don't know but it
happened Friday and Monday.
I've got logs but nothing notable jumps out as a problem. I've recently
added to the logging to test ping google and wikipedia and note their
status immediately after loosing connection to our business partner.
Hopefully this will confirm the pc can't see the internet.
The strange thing then is there is another machine here that does the
same thing and #2 will run fine while #1 is down then 30 minutes or an
hour later #2 is down and #1 is fine. So I must conclude the building's
internet connection is ok. The logs are on our file server so since
they are being written I know it can see our network. I think it's
firewall or virus protection stuff but that's not my department and I
need to be able to tell those folks during the problem so they can
troubleshoot but I as I said all I get is a "up" email never the "down"
email so best I can do is say we just finished having a problem and
that's not good enough.
Spam Catcher wrote:
cj <cj@nospam.nospamwrote in news:O1**************@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:
>Frankly I'm not even sure how to page our cell phones and my
investigation this AM seems to suggest it wouldn't be automatable.
As for "paging" cellphones... you can use SMS (text-messaging).
There are several SMS aggregators out there - basically you send them a # +
message and the aggregator will figure out which provider to route the
message to.
Click-A-Tell is one of the larger aggregators online. There are several
other ones. I believe Google has a free test service online - but you need
to determine which provider to route the message yourself.