2008/5/22 Gary Eheman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If possible, I would be using the phone system PBX for this. Find out the > numbers that the IBM equipment is dialing, and then have the PBX handle the > rest. Send emails or call someone telling them that the evil piece of IBM > equipment is phoning that number. Put the burden of this audit point on the > phone system guys.
There are "dialer" boxes available very cheaply (Google on Mitel PAV or Smart-1 for a popular example) that used to be used for the old-style dial-around long distance services in the 1980s and 90s. These boxes analyse input digits and modify the output in various ways, which can be quite subtle, and could include dialing multiple calls, one of which could be to a pager or a mail server. They also have an RS232 logging output, which could drive all sorts of computerish (rather than phonish) things. > Or put in your own open source PBX (I use Asterisk a lot) in the machine > room and run all of the IBM equipment through it. Handling this request > after that is trivial. It logs phone use for you and send emails or call > folks when something happens as I described above. This is a very neat approach, if you can make it fly in the corporate world. Who knows - there may be a niche you can fit in, where the phone guys believe it's "mainframe stuff" so they don't care, and the mainframe hardware people (including IBM) believe it's "phone stuff" so they don't care either. Asterisk *is* a very cool piece of software, though you do have to watch out for "consultants" and such people trying to sell you things that are free. This all assumes we are talking about "phone" home literally. If the call is over the Internet then all you need is a proxy of some sort. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
