Re: copy location table?

Kevin L. McBride (klm@mscg.com)
Mon, 18 Sep 95 10:43:43 EST

David M. Ramsey wrote:

> Does anyone know how I might copy the Locations table from one
> Portmaster to another?
>
> I *really* wish the PMs would get their location table data from a
> Unix host.

This would be a nice solution to a potential problem that I may be
facing soon. (Hint: Livingston, this is a feature request!)

A client of mine sells point-of-sale systems. Every store with one of
these systems has a modem on the server box so that customer support
can dial in to the stores and do maintenance/upgrades.

They want to upgrade their mechanism for doing this to use dial-on-demand
PPP to connect to the stores of one particularly large customer.

I've suggested using a PM2E-30 for this task, but am concerned that the
locations table may not be able to handle the entries for all 350 or so
stores in a large national chain that is currently on this support plan.

Am I going to run into a great big brick wall here or is there some
way to make this puppy fly?

The eventual sale of several PM2E-30s is riding on the answer I get.

Thanks.

-- 
Kevin