[hobbit] Another odd-ball question -- can I get alerts when a dial-up device connects?

[Eric van de Meerakker]

I never tried this, but how about a '!conn' or '!ping' test? Goes red 
when the network connection succeeds (i.e. first system connect), then 
you can take action and set it back to normal...

Whilding, Craig wrote:
> That wont work as clear isn't a state to recover from, only purple,
> yellow and red I believe. Not sure if this could be changed in the
> source somewhere?
> 
> Craig
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hubbard, Greg L [mailto:greg.hubbard at eds.com] 
> Sent: 21 February 2006 15:46
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] Another odd-ball question -- can I get alerts when
> a dial-up device connects?
> 
> Can you make them "dialup" and then configure an alert for a "recover"
> message?  Then change them to normal?
> 
> GLH 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kauffman, Tom [mailto:KauffmanT at nibco.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 9:38 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [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
>>
>> Tom Kauffman
>> NIBCO, Inc
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