Just my $0.02 on this whole remote administration stuff.
I have a td500 and tvp200 setup here and originally was
sitting in the server room (where the phone stuff also happens to live)
working on a laptop through a serial cable to configure both systems.
Ya, this worked, but it became a lot of work having to get a laptop
in there and connect things up every time I had to change some settings.
So. I decided since the VM system was just done through a
terminal program (Hyperterminal at the time) and the TD500 has a
ERMT installed in it I figured things could be done remotely.
So I build a little linux box. Just a Intel 233MMX w/ 64mb and
a 2gb drive and installed Debian GNU/Linux on it.
I connected one of the serial ports on the box to the
serial port on the VM system and connected the other serial port
to the SMDR port on the TD500. The connection to the VM system
allows me to work on the VM system through minicom.
As for the TD500, it still needed to be configured through
the TD500 Maint. Console which needed to be run under either Win3.x
or Win9x. It does not work under 2K, XP or NT. To solve this I just
happened to have another machine that was sitting under my desk doing
nothing, so I threw Win98 OSR2 on it, and installed the TD500 Maint.
software and a copy of Vnc Server. I just vnc into the machine, which
sits under the desk with no keyboard, mouse or monitor and use it to dial
into the ERMT card in the TD500. All configuration changes can easily
be done through there.
As for the second serial port on the Linux box in the server room.
It's connected to the SMDR port on the TD500 which allows me to store
all of the call information generated by the TD500. I mentioned this
in an earlier email about parsing the data, but I wrote a perl script
that takes the data from the TD500, and breaks it down and stores it
in various tables that I have setup in MySQL.
This may be a little more than most people would want to do, but
in my case it actually saves me a lot of time and provides more information
than I had before. It's actually helped in cases where I have gotten
emergency phone calls on the weekend, or at night where something is weird
with the phones and I need to check something or make a configuration change.
I can just SSH from home into the internal network at work, connect to the
Linux machine in the server room, and check the output of the call logs from
the SMDR port, or if things are weird with the VM, login there and make
whatever changes are necessary.
This also works well for connecting to the other machine with VNC.
A good ssh client for windows provides local port forwarding which allows
me to connect to the vncserver through a tunnle from home. From there
I can access the TD500 Main console.
But hey, this sort of setup isn't for everyone.
Mmmmm.. That's my $0.02
-nils
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