The New Info

1) The Display
    It must be possible to 'poke' all the X25 links in the network.  Ie, when
    we put in Pad switches we must be able to test the lines.  (the standard
    of the current Pad poke would be sufficient).

    It would be nice to be able to find out what Pads are up to - but this could
    be done on a much reduced time, say 10mins. So a 'poke' would still be
    done on the 3 min timer, and a fuller one every now and again.

    The 'Host' poll will have to be changed to go XXX, it would be nice to get
    VMS & Unix hosts as well as EMAS.

    The concept of a fep poll will need to change, it is open to question as to
    whether it is different from the 'line status' prod of above.

2) Logging
    The current method is hopeless.  It produces far too much paper.  What would
    be useful would be a monthly summary of how often things have gone down. An
    enhancement would be a breakdown into broad categories, ie,
    Peak Time (9-1, 2-5)
    Evening   (5-11)
    Night     (11-9)
    Maintenance (1-2 ?)

3) Alerts
    More considereation should be given as to how Network Alerts can be sent to
    Hosts around the network.  I think sending them is better than expecting
    users to come to Info for the. The actual content, as against the current
    Info Alert file needs to be considered.

4) Remote Hosts
    Should there be a mechanism for Operators (or users) to request Info to
    see if a particular Remote Host is up?