USING POTTR
POTTR communicates with standard SNMP and appears as a SNMP Agent on
the network. Any SNMP Manager application should be able to see and control
POTTR, as long as the Manager software knows the POTTR IP address on the
network.
SNMP Configuration
There is a MIB file available for your SNMP Manager application. Contact our
tech support department to get this file emailed to you :
techinfo@getpottr.com
MIB files are special device-specific files that tell the SNMP Manager
application what features and functions are available from a particular
SNMP device. They work with any SNMP Manager application.
POTTR Test Functions
POTTR performs two different tests on the POTS line to determine if it is
functioning correctly. It does a line voltage test and a off-hook dialtone test.
•For a line voltage test, POTTR looks to make sure the line voltage
measures correctly for two different conditions, ON-hook busy and ON-
hook not busy.
•The line voltage test occurs continuously at a settable time interval. The
default value is every 30 minutes.
•For the dialtone test, POTTR goes off-hook briefly and listens for a
dialtone. This test is performed every time a line voltage test passes
and the line is not busy.
•For all tests, the pass / fail values are programmable via SNMP, so you
may customize the test for your particular environment, though the
default values are already correctly set for standard POTS lines.
Reading POTTR Test Results
To quickly determine if the POTS lines are ok and functioning, you may do a
SNMP read (SNMPget) of two POTTR registers, 46610.3.3.0 and 46610.3.18.0.
These registers will reflect the current test status of POTTR. See the POTTR
Register table in the Appendix to interpret the results of these registers.
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