Patton makes gateways to connect computer networks to telephone networks. They are extremely configurable, though you do need to put a bit of effort into figuring out how they work.

Setting the admin password via the web interface hasn’t worked on any of the 5 SmartNodes which I’ve used, but rather than try a firmware upgrade, I thought I’d try via the CLI.

Whilst I was logged in, I noticed that they all support SNMP, which I also can’t find out how to enable via the web interface.

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enable
    configure
        administrator <username> password <password>
        snmp community <public> ro
        copy running-config startup-config
        exit
    exit
exit

Why SNMP?

SNMP lets you check just about anything. In my case, I use it to find out if ISDN lines are down, via the check_snmp plugin for Icinga.