Have you considered "expect"?? It's an extension to Tcl that can spawn a program, such as telnet, and then send commands to it. I have a script that telnets to a given server, answers TACACS prompt if necessary, and logs in, then su's to root - if the password is provided.
<br><br>You should be able to spawn a telnet command to a specific IP + port number, just as you would on the command line. Send the AT command, wait for the response. If it times out, do one thing, if the response occurs, do another thing. Lather, rinse, repeat.
<br><br>I haven't yet got into running much stuff via Hobbit, but I've had a lot of success over the last 5 years firing off Big Brother scripts from cron.<br><br>Ralph Mitchell<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/12/06,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Smith, Jim</b> <<a href="mailto:JMSmith@stvincenthealth.com">JMSmith@stvincenthealth.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><b><font color="teal" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: teal; font-weight: bold;">I've
been using Big Brother for about 4 years and have been testing Hobbit and plan
to switch over soon. I have a situation that I have never been able to
figure out how to address, so I'd like to throw it out here and see if
anyone has any ideas.</span></font></b></p>
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<p><b><font color="teal" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: teal; font-weight: bold;">We have
a terminal server with 7 fax modems connected to it. A Unix server uses
it to fax reports out to various doctor's offices around town. For
reasons that we've never been able to figure out, one or more of the
modems will occasionally "lock-up", i.e. quit responding to
commands. This usually locks the associated serial port on the terminal
server as well.</span></font></b></p>
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<p><b><font color="teal" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: teal; font-weight: bold;">I would
like to be able to monitor these modems by connecting to their port on the
terminal server, i.e. <a href="http://192.168.1.15:2001" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">192.168.1.15:2001</a>, send them an "AT" command,
wait a few seconds for a response, then disconnect. I can't figure
out a way to connect to them with the additional requirement of having to use
the network port that they addressed by on the terminal server…in this
case, 2001 through 2007.</span></font></b></p>
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<p><b><font color="teal" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: teal; font-weight: bold;">Any
help would be greatly appreciated.</span></font></b></p>
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<p><b><font color="teal" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: teal; font-weight: bold;">And ,
by the way, I think Hobbit is great! I think it is a big improvement upon
Big Brother, although I must admit that we're on the "better than
free" license since we are a non-profit, so I haven't seen what
Quest may have done with it.</span></font></b></p>
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<p><b><font color="teal" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: teal; font-weight: bold;">Thanks
in advance!</span></font></b></p>
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<p><b><font color="teal" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: teal; font-weight: bold;">Jim Smith</span></font></b></p>
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