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Re: Out of band monitoring of equipment

  • From: Edward S. Marshall
  • Date: Tue Nov 21 23:20:16 2000 
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, John Leong wrote:
> 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.

This was standard practice in a former life (all alerting was done via a
separately-provisioned POTS line to pagers, along with email notification
for serious issues); this wasn't just for remote equipment, but also for
equipment on our main premesis. I'm in the process of rolling it out where
I am now.

Check the archives; I'm sure I've seen Sean Donelan and others discuss
this before.

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Edward S. Marshall <[email protected]>           http://www.nyx.net/~emarshal/
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