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Run or restart Notes/Domino agents via text messages

Doug Burns ( dburns@winwholesale.com )
06.16.2009
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We're a small Notes/Domino shop and I'm our only developer, so I like to know when critical agents terminate abruptly. One solution is to set up your cell phone number as an email address (5551234@isp.com, for example). This way, you receive a text message on your phone when an agent terminates as an agent exits (AgentLogging routine). To correct terminating agents due to contention or to simply rerun an agent, I set up a mail-in database to receive a text message and trigger the agent.

To do this, create a mail file that is associated with a mail-in database and create an agent that runs when new mail arrives. Send a text message to the email address of the mail-in database and give it a code or a one-word name in the body. The agent receives this text and uses it to restart or run the a...

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