PCjr Telnet Server Test

Jules - There are lots of solutions for automating software testing out there. I built in a past life a system (Hammer Technologies' Hammer) for beating on voicemail systems over the telephone network so that these systems could be load tested without 150 humans calling in at one time (and believe me we did live tests in the early days on voicemail systems just like that!!!). Even patented a speech recognition approach to make sure the voicemail systems were responding properly. Similarly there are software systems that will duplicate any specified series of actions that a human (or computer) might take in order to simulate a user and (in most cases) record the results. This of course only measures the "outsiders'" view of what is going on, and doesn't look at the internals of the stack or anything else. But it does make for a useful tool to evaluate remotely whether something is still running. Many of the large financial services companies with complex financial software running for their customers use similar systems today to monitor their uptime and catch problems before they affect too many users. I've been out of it way too long to know who is current with the best solutions, but companies like Empirix.com (where my company Hammer Technologies eventually ended up) do similar things today. There have got to be some shareware systems somewhere that do this. Anyone running a UNIX box out there ought to be able to write a shell script to test Mike's setup and record the responses. It will be easier when a "pcjr>" response prompt is implemented so that there is a real response to check on the way back...otherwise the user is forced to just wait and then type a command that should return something like "help" or "nicks" John Kuenzig Jules Richardson wrote: