[FADCA] LINUX White Pages / QRZ Stuff

[bud thompson]

Just had another thought - after that next cup of coffee cleared out the 
cobwebs.

It has been brought to my attention that Emergency Manager types need/want 
periodic updates on all their resources.  For us that means that a non-ham 
emergency manager would want  to know the status of all the Telpac Nodes and 
PMBO packet ports in his area perhaps once a day - during routine times. 
With the LINUX/ FPAC WP/QRZ stuff and all Telpac nodes and PMBO packet ports 
beaconing once and  hour (or so) so as to be recorded as being registered on 
the network, someplace in the LINUX/FPAC network underbelly all the data 
would be there for the whole network.  (i.e. the last time a Telpac/PMBO was 
heard, etc.)

That data could then be (automatically) organized into a report and 
(automatically) updated several times a day (if not every hour) and posted 
on the internet much as the CMBO/PMBO status is at www.winlink.org.  An 
Emergency Manager type can then use his browser and learn the status of his 
e-mail over ham radio resources when ever he likes.  I suppose he could even 
subscribe to an automatic e-mail he would receive with network status - 
either of the entire network or just his area.

This same information/scheme would be an automatic way of those who manage 
several switches to learn network status of the switches as well.

bud