We had a duty pager that was supposed to rotate among 6 IT people. Unfortunately 4 of them new nothing about NT adn only 2 of us new the Email/Firewall system. I was the only one that new 2 specialized systems.
The result was the person with the duty pager tended to re-direct the pages to the appropriate person. We had a 1 hour responce time to the ionitial querry, then another 3 hours (4 total) to problem resolution.
We got no compensation for having the pager. Well, not true. The Salaried guys(the 2 of us that new most of it) didn't get any compensation. The hourly guys got paid from when they took the call until it was resolved. Invariably this was overtime and it cause some dissention.
On the upside when we returned the page, and we got there voicemail because they weren't at there desk, we considered it there problem. Sometime si'd returnt eh call within 30 seconds(Cell phones a must) and they wouldn't be there.
If your working, then you should get paid. If your salaried, then you get comp time. A bad weekend would result in me taking Tuesdays off(Mondays are to hectic to take off). That didn't make up for 911 calls while I'm at the movies with my kids, nor the arguments when I tell them I'll be ther in 2 hours, because I lived an hour away and i wasn't dressed. Sigh....
You can us NT Proxy server 2.0 in a non-authentificated mode. Works okay, and the proxy server can be behind the hardware firewall. It can also proxy on the same subnet, but I advise 2 different IP's. I used to have a Border manager setup, and would use the NT proxy server for setups/tests/public access terminals where they didn't login. I also ran cyber-patrol on the NT with no problem.
It's not as robust as other's, but you can set it up on a little P200 and it's fine for the users that can't authenticate on NDS. You can also do the 'nix solution, just depends on what ya know.
-Bryan
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We had a duty pager that was supposed to rotate among 6 IT people. Unfortunately 4 of them new nothing about NT adn only 2 of us new the Email/Firewall system. I was the only one that new 2 specialized systems. The result was the person with the duty pager tended to re-direct the pages to the appropriate person. We had a 1 hour responce time to the ionitial querry, then another 3 hours (4 total) to problem resolution. We got no compensation for having the pager. Well, not true. The Salaried guys(the 2 of us that new most of it) didn't get any compensation. The hourly guys got paid from when they took the call until it was resolved. Invariably this was overtime and it cause some dissention. On the upside when we returned the page, and we got there voicemail because they weren't at there desk, we considered it there problem. Sometime si'd returnt eh call within 30 seconds(Cell phones a must) and they wouldn't be there. If your working, then you should get paid. If your salaried, then you get comp time. A bad weekend would result in me taking Tuesdays off(Mondays are to hectic to take off). That didn't make up for 911 calls while I'm at the movies with my kids, nor the arguments when I tell them I'll be ther in 2 hours, because I lived an hour away and i wasn't dressed. Sigh....
You can us NT Proxy server 2.0 in a non-authentificated mode. Works okay, and the proxy server can be behind the hardware firewall. It can also proxy on the same subnet, but I advise 2 different IP's. I used to have a Border manager setup, and would use the NT proxy server for setups/tests/public access terminals where they didn't login. I also ran cyber-patrol on the NT with no problem. It's not as robust as other's, but you can set it up on a little P200 and it's fine for the users that can't authenticate on NDS. You can also do the 'nix solution, just depends on what ya know. -Bryan