AnOldDog
@kaballero.com
| reply to mejimbo
Re: Power loss notification by e-mail
... all day at the base of a tower makes AnonDog AnOldDog...
We use something called a "Canary". It is a simple router, switch, or WiFi AP that you run at a site and you don't provide it with battery backup.
Ping it, until it quits and you know that there is no power at that site, if you can still ping the stuff on backup power.
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mejimbo
join:2003-10-05
| said by AnOldDog :
... all day at the base of a tower makes AnonDog AnOldDog...
We use something called a "Canary". It is a simple router, switch, or WiFi AP that you run at a site and you don't provide it with battery backup.
Ping it, until it quits and you know that there is no power at that site, if you can still ping the stuff on backup power.
-m-
We have a winner! So simple, but yet I didn't think of it... We already have a monitoring system that pings the network, adding this device will be easy. I try to make things to complicated sometimes. Thanks! |
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
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| reply to AnOldDog
We do something similar. We have a bunch of old Cisco 1900 switches. I put an IP in one and stick it at a site. If it goes down I remote into the router at that site and use "sh env all" and if one power supply is down then I know the power is out. |
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