[WBEL-users] Power failures and Sending sms from server

[Benjamin Smith]

Having the system reboot when you turn power back on is a BIOS setting. 
Usually something in the "advanced" area. Look for "default power state" or 
something similar. I'd suggest setting it to "always on" since you're talking 
about a server. 

To get an SMS message on bootup, just send an email to your SMS email address. 
I'm a verizon wireless customer, I have a one-liner in /etc/rc.d/rc.local 
like: 

echo "server rebooted" | mail -s "ServerXYZ rebooted" MYPHONENUMBER at vtext.com 

Here's a useful page I bookmarked a while back... 
http://www.island.com/toolsresearch/indiv/helpfaq/instantalertsfaq.asp

-Ben 

On Wednesday 09 March 2005 09:36, Simone wrote:
> Hi, just yesterday night we had a power failure.  The mailfiltering 
> "server" (Compaq 4420EA PC) is WBEL, and after running a while on ups it 
> shut down cleanly (NUT over a MGE Ellipse ups). The problem is that it 
> doesn't really shut down the machine but it stays with a "Power down" 
> message, and when the power comes back it doesn't restart. I tried 
> passing apm=power_off, apm=power-off or acpi=on arguments to the kernel 
> in the grub.conf with no success. I was wondering if there's a way to 
> solve this, or a way around it.
> 
> Another thing is that it would be veeeery nice if this machine could 
> send me an sms in case of failures that I need to know. Did a search, 
> found some interesting projects, one above all kannel, but it looks a 
> bit too much for my needs. Is there any good piece of software you would 
> suggest?
> 
> Thank you all for your time, have a nice day
> Simone
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