Any recommendations on how to configure text paging of notifications to use a modem and phone line to an external service i.e. Skytel?
OpenNMS already has configurations to use qpage (http://www.qpage.org). You can see them in $OPENNMS_HOME/etc/notificationCommands.xml. I set up users on onms, then setup the users (with the same name) in /etc/qpage.cf. That’s pretty much all I had to do in onms. On the qpage side, you need to configure the pager-ids and the service. The key here is that the number used to send alpha pages is not the pager number but a different number talking something called TAP. So when you look for the number for Skytel, remember to look for the TAP number. And finally, the PC I installed onms on had a built-in modem using the Conexant/Rockwell HCF chipset. I spent a week trying to get this to work (it would dial, and then hang up, or connect and give errors) before getting an old-style external USR modem. It worked the first time! Of course, YMMV.
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