Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: vances@xenitec.uucp (Vance Shipley) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Help, Weird Equipment Required! Message-ID: Date: 7 Sep 89 22:25:09 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: vances@egvideo.UUCP (Vance Shipley) Organization: Linton Technology - SwitchView Lines: 33 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 359, message 3 of 4 In article vijit!root@gargoyle. uchicago.edu (Dave Madsen) writes: >At night, certain phone lines are supposed to be forwarded to *recordings*. >This device would be used to check these lines to see if the lines are >properly forwarded (ANSWER) or if someone forgot (NO ANSWER) or if we need to >try again >later (BUSY). Since this would happen at night, there's going to >be nobody around to do the test, just a lonely computer. It seems to me that what you really need is to ensure that the forwarding gets done to begin with. If you cannot ensure that someone will do it what you need is either a flexible 'night service' feature from your pbx or a 'network management' system for same. The night sevice feature would be the best way to go, as long as the time of day is correct (in the switch) it would be done without fail. If this isn't possible then a network management system that was compatible with your pbx (or centrex) could be used to alter the configuration on a schedule. To blow my own horn a minute we manufacture a network management system that (among other things) is capable of this sort of thing with northern telecom SL-1 pbx's. the product is called SwitchView. Now if i'm totally out to lunch on what you need then the pc board you descibe is manufactured by (among others) Dial-logic corp. Vance Shipley uucp: ..!{uunet!}watmath!xenitec!vances Linton Technology - SwitchView INTERNET: vances@egvideo.uucp 180 Columbia Street West (soon) vances@xenitec.uucp Waterloo, Ontario CANADA tel: (519)746-4460 N2L 3L3 fax: (519)746-6884 # if it ain't got an interface it ain't much use! #