(ASCEND) Using SNMP to disable Pipe50 calling??

["Barry Hemphill" <ubu@easynet.ca>]

I have a number of ISDN customers set up with Pipeline 50's 
connecting to our Max 4048's. Some of these customers are on a 
'daytime dedicated' - basically, they can be on 7am-7pm, but not 
7pm-7am. While this works out quite well for ourselves and the 
customer, I'm trying to find a way to make there Pipelines stop 
connecting in the evening if one of their employees leaves a mail 
client running and checking mail or something similar - otherwise, 
they get connected for no good reason and tie up one of our B 
channels. I can set it up so Radius rejects them, but then they 
absolutely *hammer* away at the radius server, dialing over and 
over again (3000+ calls per night).

What I'd like to do is use snmpwrite (from a system on their end) to 
disable calling after 7pm, and then re-enable it at 7am. I know how 
I can do this with one exception; I need to find an appropriate OID. 
Looking throught the pipeline's menus, it seems like it would make 
sense to simply set Active=No in the Connections profile (20-101). 
I can easily do that through the telnet interface, but I can't seem to 
find an appropriate OID - is there one?

If not, is there at least a way to make the Pipeline wait longer 
between redial attempts? I tried the 'Block calls after' and 'Blocked 
duration' settings in the Session options (for the Connection 
profile), but they don't seem to have any effect; I suspect the only 
work if the call itself failed, where in this case the ISDN connection 
is established, but my radius server is rejecting them - then again 
that's only a guess.

At any rate, if anyone can make some suggestions, either an OID 
to do what I described above, or some other way (SNMP or other) 
to make the pipeline stop attempting to call when I don't want it to, 
I'd appreciate the suggestions. Incidentally, this of course should 
be something that requires no intervention on the customers' part - 
as far as they know, their ISDN connection is just a mysterious 
box in their network closet, and it's probably just as well.

Thanks in advance,

Barry


Barry Hemphill                EasyNet Inc.
System Administrator          Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
ubu@easynet.ca                (519)654-9999 fax(519)654-7313

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