[32447] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Out of band monitoring of equipment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward S. Marshall)
Tue Nov 21 23:18:58 2000
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:45:45 -0600 (CST)
From: "Edward S. Marshall" <emarshal@logic.net>
To: John Leong <johnleong@research.bell-labs.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>,
"Shankar Narayanaswamy (E-mail)" <shankar@bell-labs.com>
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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 <emarshal@logic.net> http://www.nyx.net/~emarshal/
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