MarkatLMFJ
IS-IT--Management
Howdy All,
We are upgrading our credit card processing system to the enterprise based product, however, the product does not have modem failover if the internet is not available for processing. As such we are going to be upgrading our network to use a DIA circuit instead of DSL since it has SLAs and better notification if there is a problem.
However, since our credit card processor won't auto fail over to a modem to authorize, I need to have the machine dial out to the internet over dialup to do authorization that way, slower, but better than not processing at all. We have a dialup account, its setup on the machine, but I need to figure out how to say every 3 minutes try and see if the internet is accessible, if it is, then nothing happens, if its not, then I need to dial up to the internet automatically, without administrator intervention.
Anybody ahve a crafty script or method to do this? I cannot ping past my gateway and the credit card box is inside the network. I was thinking do something like try and wget a page on google or something.
Any thoughts?
We are upgrading our credit card processing system to the enterprise based product, however, the product does not have modem failover if the internet is not available for processing. As such we are going to be upgrading our network to use a DIA circuit instead of DSL since it has SLAs and better notification if there is a problem.
However, since our credit card processor won't auto fail over to a modem to authorize, I need to have the machine dial out to the internet over dialup to do authorization that way, slower, but better than not processing at all. We have a dialup account, its setup on the machine, but I need to figure out how to say every 3 minutes try and see if the internet is accessible, if it is, then nothing happens, if its not, then I need to dial up to the internet automatically, without administrator intervention.
Anybody ahve a crafty script or method to do this? I cannot ping past my gateway and the credit card box is inside the network. I was thinking do something like try and wget a page on google or something.
Any thoughts?
