Don't mean to hog this forum sorry.

Been playing with Montex software today but hitting a wall. Trying to find documentation even getting access denied on the TSI forums on what looks like useful Google results. I'm not TSI trade so fair enough. However, anyone got any pointers? As mentioned a few times I'm an IT guy and we use clever monitoring systems to alert the right people when email, websites, systems go down. Seems to me I might be able to hook Montex into this. Anyone done something similar?

I'll STFU now.

Thanks

Paul.

You will need to program the ip into the panel and then it should send the signals to the reciever (pc)

Check you are on the same network to start with to avoid routing issues and the pc doesn't have a firewall blocking the ports.

Montex works with texecom kit over a network, I've still not got round to using it depsite on the kit being on the desk for months

we use clever monitoring systems to alert the right people when email, websites, systems go down.

how ever clever they are ain't a proper a arc

Is your system nagios based?

We use two systems, both Windows Server based. PRTG and Op Manager. PRTG is getting better and better. Would like to set it up to watch my Texecom over IP and alert me to alarm, error, status etc.

I don't think you will be able to do that, unless your monitoring system already supports texecom

I'm hoping it can pick up on a port being open or ASCII output, even a log being generated.

It won't be plain text that's transmitted and it will work on a challenge system, ie some 2 way comms before any useful data is sent. We had to jump through a few hoops when we wrote our own sia over ip receiver

Port traffic you might be able to detect, or maybe hook into the montex log files?

I'm hoping it can pick up on a port being open or ASCII output, even a log being generated.

try it & report back,

I know nothing about your server monitoring thing but I suspect crestron support is more likely than a panel

Just had a thought, maybe make a COM300 talk to a local PC's modem. Easy to pick up on the terminal output. Or X10 for that matter.

Edited February 7, 201115 yr by looops