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Mobile technology is not new to health developments--cell phones have been put to task in an impressive range of technologies to improve public health. An important and relevant instance of this approach is the use of texting to address disease epidemics. This happens in a great variety of ways, including using SMS and related mobile technology to track diseases, and to encourage patients and doctors to take protective measures against rapidly spreading diseases.

A powerful example is Alerta DISAMAR, a project under the United Nations-Vodafone Foundation that uses text messaging to track the spread of infectious diseases as well as to create a valuable store of information for epidemiologists. Alerta DISAMAR was first conceived in 2001 following the death of two sailors in Peru from malaria, leading the navy to seek a way to stave off further harm.

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NotePages software can easily be integrated into existing complimentary software and hardware product lines.

Information to help integrate a new software or hardware solution with PageGate to send text or SMS Messages

Follow these steps to use Tyler Technoglogies CAD with PageGate:

Tyler Technologies CAD uses PageGate's GetAscii module to pass messages to PageGate for delivery. To configure PageGate to accept the messages from the CAD:

Send Text and SMS Messages from Tyler Technologies CAD

When a failure is detected in a business' or companys network infrastructure, it is important that the network administrator (or others) are aware of the problem. The easiest way to do this is to send text message notification(s).

While many network monitoring applications have the ability to inherently send email notifications, if the network failure impacts the email system, the alert will not be sent. In order to ensure that alerts are sent and received, we recommend using a 3rd party solution like PageGate along with cellular hardware to send the notifications wirelessly. That way if there is an issue with the network infrastructure the notifications will still be sent and received.

Send Alerts from Network Monitoring Software

PageGate can easily be integrated with ServiceNow by using PageGates GetWeb interface with an ad-hoc SMS configuration.

ServiceNow has the ability to issue a GET/POST web method when an SMS alert needs to be triggered; whether thats ticket creation, ticket escalation, password reset request, roster or schedule change or anything else your people need to know!

Send Text and SMS Messages from ServiceNow

The Power of PageGates Filter Pack
With the release of PageGates filter pack, its possible to format messages completely differently for recipients and groups that need it. Often times, when you use a third party message aggregator like Active911, I Am Responding, Infobip, Clickatel, The Fire Horn and similar, those services need messages formatted in a very specific and static way. Due to their message parsing requirements, most will need the same number of fields in the same exact position for every message sent.

Did you Know that PageGate Can Post Updates to a Website?
Did you know that PageGate can post updates to a website via CGI commands?
The current version of PageGate can use the GET and POST methods of passing CGI variables to a web server, allowing you to pass updates to a website as part of your outbound messaging.

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PageGate can be easily integrated with Samanage by using PageGate's GetMail interface. GetMail gives PageGate the ability to receive an email and translate that in to an SMS, page, update to a web API, etc, and Samanage has the ability to send an email when a trigger condition is met, whether thats ticket escalation, critical alerts or anything you might need.

Steps to Use Samanage with PageGate

NotePage is pleased to announce the availability of a new Filter Pack option for PageGate. The PageGate Filter Pack increases the flexibility and power of PageGate's text messaging capabilities.  With the PageGate Filter Pack, customers can search inbound data for specific words, phrases or characters, and using literal or RegEx searches, SMS messages can automatically be sent when the defined criteria is met.

Additionally, the PageGate Filter Pack allows for the contents of messages to be substantially changed. For example if an alarm that PageGate is monitoring generates a numeric code, PageGate can replace the numeric code with a more meaningful message which can then be distributed to specific groups or individuals via a text message.

The PageGate Filter Pack can also extract text message data from other textual formats like HTML, XML or JSON.  PageGate's Filter Pack uses a powerful RegEx (regular expression) engine, allowing data extraction from almost any data format.This  information can then be sent out via SMS or text message.

PageGate Filter Pack Increases the Flexibility and Power of PageGates Text Messaging Capabilities

Alerts are generated for user-definable events, and may be triggered by the simple occurrence of an event or by the crossing of a threshold value for a monitored Interface, Volume or Node. Alerts may be set to notify different people on different days, different times of the day, different people for different events, or any combination of times, events, and people. Alerts can be configured to notify people who need to know about the emergent event.

Send Text and SMS Messages from SolarWinds Orion

Did you know that PageGate can post updates to a website via CGI commands?

The current version of PageGate can use the GET and POST methods of passing CGI variables to a web server, allowing you to pass updates to a website as part of your outbound messaging.

Did You Know that PageGate Can Be Used to Update Websites Using CGI?

PageGate can be integrated with Xymon Monitor by having Xymon's alerting system use a script to pass messages to PageGate's GetASCII API.

Since Xymon is a linux/unix based program and PageGate is a Windows based program, you will need to install PageGate on a Windows based system and create a shared directory that both Xymon and PageGate have read, write and modify access to.

Send Text and SMS Messages from Xymon Monitor

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