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

[henrik (at) hswn.dk (Henrik Stoerner)]

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