PMDF System Manager's Guide

A pager channel address can take one of two forms:

1. pager-id@domain-name where pager-id is the pager identification number for the pager to which a message is to be sent, and domain-name is one of the pager domain names added to the configuration file as described in Section 26.4.1.2. An example of such an address is 1234@pager.example.com.
2. AVPL@domain-name where AVPL item, an attribute-value pair list, is described in the following subsections. An example of such an address is /ID=1234/@pager.example.com.

26.4.2.1 The Contents of the Attribute-value Pair List (AVPL)

/attribute1=value1/attribute2=value2/.../

The attribute codes specify the destination pager number and its characteristics. The available attributes are shown in Table 26-3.

Table 26-3 Pager Channel Addressing Attributes

Attribute name	Usage
ID	Pager ID number.
MAXPAG	Maximum number of pages to send for any one message. If a message is broken into more than MAXPAG pages, then pages MAXPAG, MAXPAG+1, MAXPAG+2... are discarded and not sent.
MSGLEN	Maximum length in bytes of the message to send as one or more pages. Message will be truncated to this length if necessary. This will override any size set with the MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE channel option.
PAGLEN	Maximum length in bytes per page; message will be broken into multiple pages with no one page exceeding this length. This will override any size set with the MAX_PAGE_SIZE channel option.

When an AVPL oriented pager address is used, the ID attribute must be specified.

If any of the characters "/", "=", and "$" are to appear within values in the AVPL, then they must be quoted. See Section 26.6.2.2 for instructions on how to quote these characters.

26.4.2.2 Examples of Pager Channel Addresses

1234@mci.pager.example.com /id=1234/@mci.pager.example.com /paglen=100/id=1234/@mci.pager.example.com /msglen=400/id=1234/@mci.pager.example.com /maxpag=2/id=1234/@mci.pager.example.com /id=1234/paglen=200/msglen=400/@mci.pager.example.com