You could easily do this using Twillio. We've done the same thing to test if a PBX is up.
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Jon Lewis <jle...@lewis.org> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Dec 2015, Larry Sheldon wrote: > > 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. >> > > Presumably, the modems are already there (setup to answer) as a means to > access the OOB console servers in the case of a network outage. "Does it > answer" is just a simple way to tell "is the power out, and everything's > dead, or is there a network problem that's caused us to lose visibility?" > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jon Lewis, MCP :) | I route > | therefore you are > _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ > -- *Jamie Gwatkin* / Software Developer - DevOps ja...@workshopx.com <fab...@workshopx.com> Inspire creation. www.workshopx.com *Our companies* CanvasPop <http://canvaspop.com/> / CanvasPop API <http://canvaspop.com/photo-printing-api> / DNA11 <http://dna11.com/> / Crated <http://crated.com/> / PopKey <http://popkey.co/>
