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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Out of band monitoring of equipment
John Leong <[email protected]> writes: > Curious if any operator uses, or have interest in using, out of band > network (e.g. modem, wireless etc.) for remote equipment (routers, > switches, HVAC etc.) monitoring over and above doing it in band on the > Internet. In past jobs, we have done this for both administration and some monitoring. For administration, we just used an old Annex3 terminal server as a serial connection mux. We plugged up to 64 serial cables into the consoles of various devices, and connected a modem to one of those serial cables. That worked really well. For monitoring, a team that I worked with had a machine that monitored the network and had a connection to a phone line to issue pages when things broke. I think these are both fairly common setups. Hope this helps, ------ScottG.
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