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Creating an AfterHours OnCall Schedule

Learn how to create and configure an **on-call schedule in OnPage** with this step-by-step how-to guide. In this video, we walk through how to select a group, create a new schedule, assign on-call team members, set escalation priority, and configure coverage for specific days and times. Using OnPage’s on-call scheduling capabilities, teams can ensure the right responders are automatically available for critical alerts, incidents, messages or calls during designated coverage periods, including after-hours, weekends, and other shifts.

How to Create and Import Contacts in the NEW OnPage Web Console

A step-by-step guide for OnPage’s new web management console, including how to create a single contact and how to create multiple contacts at once by importing an Excel spreadsheet. Feel free to comment below with any questions! Whether you’re in IT or healthcare, OnPage helps teams manage critical alerting and communication to ensure urgent messages reach the right people at the right time. If you’re not yet using OnPage or want to see how it works, request a demo or speak with a member of our team to learn more.

Creating Escalation and Regular Groups in OnPage

Learn how to create and configure an Escalation Group in OnPage with this step-by-step how-to guide. This video walks through how to create an escalation group, a regular group, configure escalation intervals and factors, enable Round Robin, set failover OPIDs, and add a Fail Report email address. With escalation groups, OnPage can route critical alerts to team members in a predefined order and automatically move to the next responder when needed—helping ensure time-sensitive notifications don’t go unanswered.

Reduce duplicate alert noise with Alert Deduplication

A single incident can generate the same alert several times in quick succession. These duplicate alerts create unnecessary noise and alert fatigue, and make it harder for on-call teams to focus on the issue that needs their attention. OnPage Alert Deduplication reduces repeat notifications while preserving visibility into every incoming alert.

AT&T Email-to-Text Replacement: Best Alternatives for Critical Alerts

AT&T is permanently shutting down its email-to-text and text-to-email gateway, which means alerts sent to @txt.att.net or @mms.att.net no longer reach phones. For IT teams, MSPs, facilities teams, building management, utilities and incident response teams in general, this creates a serious gap. Critical alerts from monitoring tools, ITSM platforms, building systems, IoT devices, and other operational systems still need to reach the right person quickly, especially after hours.

5 AT&T Email-to-Text Alternatives to Improve MTTR in 2026

On June 17, 2025, AT&T permanently shut down its email-to-text and text-to-email gateway. Emails sent to @txt.att.net and @mms.att.net stopped reaching phones, and any automated workflow that relied on that address went dark overnight (AT&T support) . For IT Ops, MSPs, facilities and energy ops and incident response teams, this was not a minor inconvenience.

StepbyStep Guide to Automating Alert Management for IT Ops

Your monitoring stack never sleeps. Datadog fires a spike, ServiceNow spins up a ticket, your RMM flags a failed backup, and every one of those signals competes for attention across email, dashboards, and chat channels. For IT Ops teams running on-call rotations, the volume itself becomes the problem. Alert fatigue sets in, critical notifications blend into the noise, and the one incident that matters at 3 a.m. gets buried under a hundred that don’t. The cost is real.

5 Reasons OnPage Tops the Best HIPAA Messaging Apps List

Choosing a HIPAA-compliant messaging app is rarely about security alone. Healthcare teams need messages that get read, on-call schedules that route to the right provider, and reliability that holds up at 3 a.m. Most apps clear the encryption bar. Fewer guarantee a missed page never happens. Or that critical alerts from medical systems and urgent after-hours calls from a discharged patient reach the right on-call staff.

7 Secure Medical Messaging Apps Private Practices Trust in 2026

For private medical practices in 2026, secure and efficient communication is non-negotiable. Standard consumer messaging apps like iMessage and WhatsApp are not compliant with privacy regulations and create significant risks for both patients and providers. Adopting a dedicated, HIPAA-secure messaging solution is essential for protecting patient data and streamlining clinical workflows.

On Call During the FIFA World Cup? Here's How IT Teams Stay Connected

Watching the FIFA World Cup with friends while on call? Being on call doesn't have to mean missing out on life's biggest moments. Whether you're at a packed sports bar, hosting a watch party, or cheering on your favorite team, critical incidents can happen when you least expect them. That's why IT teams rely on OnPage's persistent, attention-grabbing mobile alerts. Unlike emails, texts, or traditional notifications that can get lost in the noise, OnPage's critical alerts are designed to break through distractions and ensure urgent issues are never missed.