On 12/6/2015 16:17, Karl Auer wrote:
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.
I'll join the confusion--I thought the OP wanted to test for power
availability at the distant site by seeing if a modem there would answer
the phone there. That it HAD to be a modem in that case makes no sense
to me.
I'm of the line now and have been for a while and maybe y'all don't do
things the way we did--we always had an answering machine (two or three
in some places*) that always answered on the first ring and gave some
kind of status report that was updated hourly on on event). If it did
not answer, the power was out.
*at one site we had one that gave general status--what's up, what's
down, what's generally interesting (outages scheduled soon, where we are
in the daily batch cycle). We had another listing southern region
outputs ready for pick-up and one listing northern region stuff.
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sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Juvenal)
