Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Maren Purves <[email protected]> · Mon, 18 Nov 2002 08:02:32 -1000

Peregrine M. McGehee wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> 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.

We use the EPICS alarm handler to send email.
Of course it can be set up to do just about anything else.
One of our temperature alarm files looks like this:

$STATCOMMAND HIGH echo "IRCAM temperature exceeds 34K" | /usr/ucb/mail
-s "IRCAM temp. exceeds 34K" maren-ircam
$STATCOMMAND HIHI echo "IRCAM temperature exceeds 35K" | /usr/ucb/mail
-s "IRCAM temp. exceeds 35K" maren-ircam

where of course you can replace the "/usr/ucb/mail" command by
whatever you need.

Aloha,

Maren

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System