Yep, with my managed network customers. I have a small number of customers, each of which is meaningfully profitable, so a $100/year deployment of a Pi with a fancier USB wifi interface is well worth it. I set up reverse SSH sessions (originating from the Pi) to distinct per-customer bastion hosts on my management networks, so that the customer's firewall and/or dynamic-IP issues are non-issues. I use Chef, git, and some shell scripts for config management.
I've had 1 Pi fail out of 20. So, reliable enough, though of course not a huge sample size. It's great to be able to say "Hey, customer, I noticed a routing issue impacting your web-based accounting software on your ISP A, so I automatically promoted ISP B to primary for that route. Monitoring (graph screenshot attached) indicates that this was an effective workaround. I'll restore normal routing or promote ISP B to primary off-hours tonight, depending on the outcome of the trouble ticket I've already opened about the issue." before the first tech support call comes in. Similar customer success story when I call them immediately after getting an alert from the Pi-connected UPS informing me of a power outage. This kind of thing makes the next 2-year renewal negotiation an easy one. :) Graham Freeman, Principal Nerd NerdVentures.com <https://nerdventures.com/> +1-510-898-6772 [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamfreeman Twitter: @get_nerdy <https://twitter.com/get_nerdy> On 11 February 2016 at 16:26, Chris Aloi <[email protected]> wrote: > You have pi's deployed on the customer premise running smoke ping ? > Great idea, have they been reliable ? I've only played with them - never > production. How do you handle managing a pi fleet ? > > --- > Christopher Aloi > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 11, 2016, at 3:36 PM, Graham Freeman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I use and like StatusCake.com <http://statuscake.com> as a hosted > monitoring provider, and SmokePing as an internally-managed monitoring tool. > > StatusCake has been reliable, and offers nice features such as worldwide > monitoring endpoints, outage confirmation, configurable paging methods and > thresholds, etc. They also support different types of monitoring, ranging > from a simple ICMP ping to a more complex mix of HTTP(S), keyword > monitoring, blocklist monitoring, etc. The pricing is good enough that > I've forgotten how much it costs. > > SmokePing's advantages include (1) it's open source, (2) it's relatively > easy to install and configure, (3) it's lightweight enough to run on > customer-side Raspberry Pis, (4) it supports extremely fine-grained > monitoring (e.g. my endpoints will detect and optionally alert on outages > of <5 seconds), and so on. The software is free, as it's open-source, and > it could be implemented on a $5/mo VPS at somewhere like DigitalOcean. > > good luck, > > Graham Freeman, Principal Nerd > NerdVentures.com <http://nerdventures.com> > +1-510-898-6772 > [email protected] > https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamfreeman > Twitter: @get_nerdy > > On 11 Feb 02016, at 12:28, Li Tiatia <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > Anyone have any suggestions on recommended website/IP monitoring tools? > There are so many out there and just need help to narrow the list down > based on what you're using or have good experience with. > > Thank you. > *_________________________________* > > *Li Tiatia* > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops > > > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops > >
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