Ok, that makes more sense. My initial assumption was that you were doing some automated management at the site, i.e. rebooting radios, etc via script control. I'm trying to figure out what is interesting for people to control automatically so I can make sure those features make it into either the first or an early release.
For what you're doing, I'd definitely start with the Pi. On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 7:20 PM, David Coudron <[email protected] > wrote: > That’s right. We have this running in our NOC as a backup only if the > local ones fail. Our DIAs are geographically dispersed so the thought is > we run these in the DIA and some other key towers for their local subnets > only since we don’t backhaul our traffic from the different regions to the > NOC, we dump it on the Internet close to the tower groupings. If these > monitors fail for some reason, we fire up the one in the NOC that is > connected to those subnets through VPN. We are looking for cheap and > small foot print since we have a very feasible backup we can kick in > easily. > > > > Get Outlook for iOS <https://aka.ms/o0ukef> > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* 30141712500n behalf of > *Sent:* Saturday, August 25, 2018 6:55 PM > *To:* [email protected] > > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] POE powered PC for monitoring > > > > Probably what a lot of us would do. I kind of get the impression that he > wants to run these things locally? > > > > bp > > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > > > On 8/25/2018 3:39 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: > > Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it typical to run those > functions in one or more servers in your noc? > > > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018, 3:05 PM David Coudron <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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]> > 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] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- *Forrest Christian* *CEO**, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc.* Tel: 406-449-3345 | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602 [email protected] | http://www.packetflux.com <http://www.linkedin.com/in/fwchristian> <http://facebook.com/packetflux> <http://twitter.com/@packetflux>
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