Checking if the phone was answered... (you keep me hanging on the Telephone)

[Dan Stromberg]

For python, pexpect might be the best module to use.

However, kermit has an implementation of such dialogs specifically
intended for modems.

On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 21:42 +1100, Stanley Hopcroft wrote:
> Dear Folks,
> 
> I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 08:09:39PM -0800, nagios-users-request at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> > 
> > Message: 3
> > From: "Thomas Earl" <tearl at cacdhh.org>
> > To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> > Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:31:32 -0500
> > 
> > Greetings to all, 
> > 
> > I'm wondering if anyone has written something that would check if a phone
> > was answered. i.e. Nagios dials out, waits for an answer then hangs up and
> > reports back.
> 
> Any of the ptty tools like Expect/TCL, Expect/Perl and the Ruby. 
> Python equivalents might be useful in conjunction with a modem.
> 
> eg
>   have modem dial your number
>   carrier detect ?
>   yes)
> 	=> OK
>   no)
> 	=> Critical
> 
> You may be better off puttng a modem on your system and see if the pair 
> can go into data transfer phase.
> 
> Surely _no_ analogue phone system could be so unreliable that you need 
> to test it ?
>  
> > Thanks, 
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
> 
> Yours sincerely.
> 
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