Working off serial port

[corliss at alaskapm.org]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, K Creason wrote:

> I've got a situation where I can use Perl, but not sure where to start.
>  
>  Because of crank calls to Emergency, we want to log PBX activity. I've got
> a unix machine nearby... heh heh. So I thinks, what better way to capture
> and parse the data from it's gobblety gook than to use Perl?
>  
>  Two big problems:
> 1. It's got to run all the time, even when no-one is logged in
> 2. How do you get info off the hardware in Perl?
>  
>  The actual OS is HPUX, not linux. :(

What kind of PBX are you using?  Most of the have data ports (or slots for
such expansion), do you have access to one?  You might be able siphon off the
data over a serial link or what have you. . .

	--Arthur Corliss
	  Perl Monger/Alaska Perl Mongers
	  http://www.alaskapm.org/

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