OK, sounds like we need to get our hands on a PI and start messing with it. Our monitoring is mostly going to be IP based stuff. We are implementing Sonar and need it to run the Poller client. So we will be ping devices and doing SNMP pulls. We may also have it do some other scripted stuff, but haven’t really dug into that much.
Once we have a Linux device in these sites, I am sure there is more that we could be doing with it than what we monitor/control today. Regards, David Coudron From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Forrest Christian (List Account) Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2018 3:04 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] POE powered PC for monitoring Raspberry pi should be robust enough, the only issue would be sd card durability if you don't pick a good quality card and take care to mount the drives with sd friendly mount options. To somewhat hijack the discussion, I'm interested in what you plan to monitor on site. The reason is that I'm currently doing product definition work for our next generation in caninet monitoring platform which is going to include a lot of the functionality that would normally be reserved for the noc. Mainly want to know what people are looking for in this type of solution. On Sat, Aug 25, 2018, 8:10 AM David Coudron <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: We are considering adding a small Linux based PC/device into our cabinets to run a variety of monitoring services. There are lots of small computing options out there, but we haven’t stumbled across a solution that seems to provide the fit we are looking for. Here is a list of desired features: 1. Support for Ubuntu 16.04 2. POE powered, either 24 or 48 V will work 3. Small form factor, DIN Rail mounted would be ideal 4. Cheap – We think there is reasonably priced stuff out there, but haven’t found it yet. There are industrial versions of these things, but we don’t need that reliability or durability Some things that aren’t important to us: 1. Durability – we have backup monitoring running in our NOC so if we lose one of these we can run indefinitely without it 2. High Performance – any moderate level platform will do, it is just monitoring 3. Gigabit Ethernet – 100 Mbit is fine 4. Bluetooth/Wifi or video support - As long as we can get Linux installed and log into it remotely we are fine. We keep looking at the Raspberry PI platform, but are not sure that either the performance/compatibility under Ubuntu will be OK. Anyone have any luck with a moderately priced solution for this kind of thing? Regards, David Coudron -- AF mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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