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Re: (ASCEND) SNMP the hard way



James Fischer <jfischer@supercollider.com> wrote:

        If you Max is "locking up", what assurance do you have that
        the Max will respond to SNMP commands when "locked"?  In your 
        place, I would guess "none".
<snip>
        One could also plug an external modem into the "console"
        port of the Max, and put in a single analog phone line
        to support last-ditch administration of the Max via direct
        dial-up connection.  (The line can also be handy in cases where
        a tech wants to call the NOC from the site.)

Thanks for the insights how to provide 100% uptime in a real hi-tech
environment :-)
But jokes aside: You made a very good point right at the start - how do
I know that the MAX would still respond to SNMP?
Hey, I don't know - I am not using SNMP....BUT the MAX still responds to
analog calls! Just found out. So I can reach it and press the button. 

It's just that doing it interactively sometimes is just too much. I
tried scripting but that didn't succeed because there was no "default"
prompt. My term emu (Delrina Wincomm) is otherwise excellent but needs a
"default prompt" to find out when to end the script...too much hassle to
find this one out.

One nice guy from DownUnder (Dean Frye <dfrye@ascend.com.au>) sent me a
telnet script. Worked with UNIX (eh, IRIX) for about 8 years but would
have never guessed that telnet could be used that way:
(echo loginname; echo PWD;...)|telnet

I'll try it out today. Thanks for your ideas.



P.S. Wasn't there a _third_ guy in the world who would think "awk" in
the first place and not "perl" :->


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