I'm a systems engineer, back in a few weeks ago there was a wifi outage in several meet rooms. The incident has affected a few C ranking officers' access to the internet. The company president went outrage and CTO offered my manager to set up a few android pads to monitor the WiFi connection.
I told the manager that it's stupid thing todo and why in detail, anyway, he could not say no to the CTO. We eventually bought 10+ Android pads and placed them around the workspace. He setup a simple automation flow to log WLAN connection and disconnection events to a txt file, and each week we will have to manually fetch the file and put it into an Xls file.
Situation:
It's my shift this week. Should I say no to this kind os BS? Or should be quitting the job, this happens inclines that a lot of things that have gone wrong already.
Could you just automate this bit? Please your boss and remove the manual task from your duties?
Imho: The requirement to alert when WIFI is down is not stupid.