Troubleshooting qpage - a paging daemon
A common monitoring system, Nagios, uses qpage for sending alphanumeric pages via a modem.. yes it sound insane, but think about what happens to your monitoring system when your internet connection drops, unless your using outside monitoring, your not going to get that email to send you a page.
I ran into an issue with the modem not dialing quickly enough and had a few tips for getting it going.
1) Make sure that your calling the correct dialing group.
2) Check the modem in minicom, load it up, and do a few
AT[ENTER]
OK
ATZ[ENTER]
OK
to make sure the modem is reset, and then do a
ATDT 2125551212[ENTER]
{it should pause and dial the number [in this case, 212-555-1212] and either tell you BUSY, CONNECTED, or error out.
Just thought I’d toss out a few reminders.