You could do some interesting things with the PI's GPIO ports too... flash a LED to locate it in a rack, triggering a relay to reset a cable modem, log environmental data etc..
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 7:38 PM Graham Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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