Seems like a fan is defeating the whole purpose of a Pi board...
On 8/27/18 12:38 PM, Joe Novak wrote:
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)
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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
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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. ____
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Probably what a lot of us would do. I kind of get the impression
that he wants to run these things locally?____
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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?____
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On Sat, Aug 25, 2018, 3:05 PM David Coudron
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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. ____
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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.____
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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.____
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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.____
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On Sat, Aug 25, 2018, 8:10 AM David Coudron
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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
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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. ____
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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?____
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