Re: Testing Out Of Band Management Tooling

[Josh Luthman via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

I wrote a script for our monitoring system that just does a quick login
checks for prompt and if everything is okay sleeping dogs lay.

If anything goes wrong anywhere along the line I get a yellow condition
until it is resolved.  If it stays yellow for 24 hours it goes red.

I always practice and preach automate everything.  A computer will never
sleep or forget.

On Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 1:59 PM Andrew Latham via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
wrote:

> All
>
> Related to the Serial console topic I wanted to do a quick test. I hit
> a hiccup in my documentation and addressed it.
>
> Questions:
> A: How often should one do dry run testing on OOBM?
> B: How often should one call and confirm emergency numbers for remote
> vendor sites?
> C: How could Out Of Band Management equipment be monitored better in 2025?
>
> If you have other thoughts about questions, pop them in starting at D
>
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