Re: The light comes on...

Midrange-l might be best.
Starting a new topic with "Reply with History"???

Criticism aside, you need to find a switch that has some kind of 
electronic interface.  Be it RS232, ethernet, etc.  Once you find the 
switch then you can delve into how to communicate with the switch from the 
i.

Or, forget the light and get a pager.  Then buy some paging software and 
have it monitor a message queue or something.
Messenger Plus is one of the most popular.
LXI Page is ok.
Robot gets a lot of coverage.  However the other vendors often bundle 
better.  Like most of the other vendors products are some combination of 
Robot's Alert and UPS, Console, Schedule, etc.

Don't assume that the higher the price the better the quality.  I looked 
for a package to replace WRKDBF and some of these were cheap beer on a 
champagne budget.
http://www.bytware.com/products/mplus.html
http://lxi.com/solutions/page_and_event_management.html
http://www.helpsystems.com/products/alert.html


Rob Berendt