I just saw this on slashdot: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/poe-hat/
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 1:43 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) < [email protected]> wrote: > 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> > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > >
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