Thanks Gideon. From what I gather monitoring 24x7 can be done, but costs lots of $ and time to implement and maintain. I suppose that there is a market for a cheap and easily configurable and maintainable product that does this. Pie in the sky? Wishful thinking? Perhaps; but we all need to have a dream that such a thing is 'doable'.
Something for more intelligent minds than mine...
Russ