Need to send message from perl script to an Alpha Pager

[philsy]

I need to tap in on the experience of the group to see if this undertaking is possible. My organization has a number of users with alpha pagers. We are automating a number of notifications and we send. We would like send notifications via http and avoid using our outdated and soon to be replaced mail server. Our paging service provides a web page where users can manually enter the messages for the pager but we would like to take the manual piece out and find a way to automate the submission of the alpha page. Any ideas? Thanks in advance...

Phil

 

[travs69]

You can always use LWP, but that is assuming that they don't make any changes to their system. If you can do email I would stick with that.

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Travis - Those who say it cannot be done are usually interrupted by someone else doing it; Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions;

 

[philsy]

I really want to stay away from e-mail. Our system is outdated and going to be replaced soon.

 

[KevinADC]

whats your definition of automated?

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- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!

 

[philsy]

Automated = an action in another system like an order being placed for example will execute the script that I want to use to send the text message. Critical info needed for the message will be passed at the time of execution.

 

[travs69]

I think you will find that every time the web page changes you will have to go through your development cycle again. Have you talked with the company to see if they have any sort of API that you can interface?

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Travis - Those who say it cannot be done are usually interrupted by someone else doing it; Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions;

 

[chgwhat]

Have you though about a modem and tap, this is what we use, and never have pager issues when there are network / email issues.



Tony ... aka chgwhat

When in doubt,,, Power out...

 

[travs69]

We just do it through email.
I would say we have a 99% success rate. We send thousands of pages every month.

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Travis - Those who say it cannot be done are usually interrupted by someone else doing it; Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions;