You could always just use UPS equipment that can send out alerts on power outages and low bat voltage. Or, use equipment that supports dying gasp. On Dec 6, 2015 4:31 PM, "James Laszko" <jam...@mythostech.com> wrote:
> Nah, it wasn't you! :) > > The solution I think we're going to go with is leveraging our existing SIP > infrastructure and write scripts to dial out to the OOB Modem / Fax > machines at the sites that are disconnected from the network. If they both > don’t answer, we'll assume a power outage. If one or the other does > answer, it'll queue up for human interaction. > > I wrote a script in Perl in about 15 minutes to do this. God, I'm not > sure if I'm stuck thinking inside or outside the box anymore! > > > Thanks for the replies and insights, > > > James > > > -----Original Message----- > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Karl Auer > Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2015 14:17 > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Modem as a service? > > On Sun, 2015-12-06 at 16:36 -0500, James R Cutler wrote: > > > On Dec 6, 2015, at 2:19 PM, James Laszko <jam...@mythostech.com> > wrote: > > > > > > ... we don’t need to actually connect to the OOB modem on the other > > > side, we just need a NO ANSWER/ANSWER kind of response. … > > > > Forget modems - to probe via some kind of analog connection, just get > > a single instrument wireless telephone with answering capability. For > > a bonus, put some kind of identifier in the answering message: No > > power > no answer; power > answer. > > I must be thick - how does that solve the problem? The OP wants to know if > a modem at a remote site will answer the phone. Maybe I misunderstood the > problem. > > Regards, K. > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) > http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer > http://twitter.com/kauer389 > > GPG fingerprint: 3C41 82BE A9E7 99A1 B931 5AE7 7638 0147 2C3C 2AC4 Old > fingerprint: EC67 61E2 C2F6 EB55 884B E129 072B 0AF0 72AA 9882 > > >
