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Administrator’s Guide
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Using the Alert Manager
•
To add a pager number to the list, click
Add
to open the Pager
Properties dialog box (
Figure 6-11 on page 178
). Choose the type of
pager your recipient uses from the list at the top of the page, then
enter the information for that pager type in the boxes provided.
• If your recipient uses an alphanumeric pager, enter the pager
number and, if necessary, the recipient’s ID and password in
the boxes provided. Next, select the
Use Alert Message
button
to send the standard alert message, or select the
Use Custom
Message
button and enter your custom message in the box
just below it.
• If your recipient uses a numeric pager, enter the pager number
and the numeric message you want to send in the boxes
provided. Next, enter in the
Delay
box the number of seconds
Alert Manager should wait before transmitting its message.
Give Alert Manager enough time to get past the initial greeting
and any other preliminary messages the paging service plays
before it accepts messages. If the service requires touch tones to
activate menu options, you may need to write a login script for
use with your modem.
To choose additional options, continue with
Step 4
.
•
To change configuration options, select one of the pager numbers in
the list, then click
Properties
. Alert Manager opens the Pager
Properties dialog box (
Figure 6-11 on page 178
). Change any of the
information in the boxes shown, then continue with
Step 4
to choose
new or different configuration options.