[EAS] EAS: Pinging remote computers

[Dave Kline]

Tim,

You not only hit the nail on right on the head but you drove it all the way in with one stroke.
Personally, I've become amused, if not bewildered at all the e-mails that go out every time someone loose contact with the mother ship.

My SAGE box sends me an e-mail when it can't find the CAP server. It sends another one when the connection is re-established.
I save the e-mails so if I do miss a CAP alert and it coincides with a connection failure, then I have that information for logging.
For those of you who don't have any way to track/auto log connection outages, maybe doing pings to verify the status of you ISP would be helpful. It doesn't cover any issues outside of your ISP, but a little info is better than no info.

Maybe there is a way, say for each time zone, or on a state by state basis that someone could send information to a list serve that includes the CAP UP or DOWN status.  Then those who can't track it directly could subscribe to that list and get the info without sending a query to this list. I don't know how that would work, I'm just throwing out an idea for consideration by those smarter about IT than I, which is most of you.

Dave
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