[hobbit] Another odd-ball question -- can I get alerts when a dial-up device connects?
The problem I've got is that we configure the access points here, then ship them to the remote sites for install. They're down until the guys at the remote site get around to unpacking them, renting a scissor lift, and installing them up in the rafters. Once they're plugged in, they're live and a connectivity failure is a problem. I need to see them go green when they get plugged in and change the config so we'll be notified on an outage.
And it looks like my idea of the NK page won't work, either. Back to the drawing board.
Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc
-----Original Message----- From: Thomas [mailto:tlp-hobbit at holme-pedersen.dk] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 6:08 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Another odd-ball question -- can I get alerts when a dial-up device connects?
Use the DOWNTIME tag for this. This preventes the alert from being generated but you still trend the conn access.
Kauffman, Tom wrote:
We have a number of manufacturing and warehouse sites that do bar-code scanning with rf 'guns'. We've been through a cycle of equipment upgrades and swapouts, and I now have about a dozen new rf access points configured in hobbit that are still in the box and not hooked up.
I've currently configured them as 'dialup', so we don't get pestered by alerts. But I'd like to know when they actually get installed, so I can drop the 'dialup' tag. Is there a way to do it?
We don't currently use the 'NK' pages -- I'm tempted to put these devices, with the 'conn' test, on the NK page and just check it from time to time. Is there a better way?
TIA
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:38:21AM -0500, Kauffman, Tom wrote:
The problem I've got is that we configure the access points here, then ship them to the remote sites for install. They're down until the guys at the remote site get around to unpacking them, renting a scissor lift, and installing them up in the rafters. Once they're plugged in, they're live and a connectivity failure is a problem. I need to see them go green when they get plugged in and change the config so we'll be notified on an outage.
So what you're really after is something like "disable them until we see an OK status".
It's something I've been wanting to implement for a number of reasons; one of them being that when we have a server that is down, we may not know for how long the outage will last. But not all of our techs know how to re-enable a host, or even care about doing it. So it would be nice to have them disabled, and automatically enable them when they start being OK.
It seems fairly simple to implement ...
Henrik
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:24:06PM +0100, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:38:21AM -0500, Kauffman, Tom wrote:
The problem I've got is that we configure the access points here, then ship them to the remote sites for install. They're down until the guys at the remote site get around to unpacking them, renting a scissor lift, and installing them up in the rafters. Once they're plugged in, they're live and a connectivity failure is a problem.
So what you're really after is something like "disable them until we see an OK status". [snip] It seems fairly simple to implement ...
It's in the next snapshot, although I would caution people against using this in a production setup. It works for me, but there are still some things being worked on, and some things that need more testing.
Henrik
I have a server that mostly is down and disabled. I installed todays snapshot, started the server and waited for "conn" going green. But nothing happened. Did I misunderstand anything?
Lars
----- Original Message ----- From: "Henrik Stoerner" <henrik at hswn.dk> To: <hobbit at hswn.dk> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 11:11 PM Subject: Re: [hobbit] Another odd-ball question -- can I get alerts when a dial-up device connects?
So what you're really after is something like "disable them until we see an OK status". [snip] It seems fairly simple to implement ...
It's in the next snapshot, although I would caution people against using this in a production setup. It works for me, but there are still some things being worked on, and some things that need more testing.
Henrik
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