I agree. solid idea. also on the day that the devices are due to come online, if your on the field starting things up, getting alerts on your phone about them coming up is a great comfort/benefit returning to your desk, it is easy to see which device you haven't connected yet or properly.
In an enterprise, the snmp community string should the be known. but still the ordinary device discovery will occur when pings start coming back.
thanks
Peter Hine Senior Technical Support Engineer (Servers) FCoA ITS peter.hine@familycourt.gov.au
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