[Outages-discussion] Idea to help with the S/N on outages...

[Bill Wichers]

If there is enough interest from other members in this I'd be willing to
offer hosting services and a server to run it, or to be a node if
someone wants to try to set up some kind of monitoring mesh. Our
facility is outside of Detroit, MI.

  -Bill

> Just adding my humble suggestion - hoping not to get flamed -
smokeping
> (low resource usage) on a box sitting in 'Somewhere, US' managed by
> (insert poor unlucky soul here) with the results page posted to the
> outages.org website...
> 
> I could be wrong - it could be a pain to do, but it would provide
basic
> latency/availability data for any node requested - licensing is priced
> right and resource usage is fairly minimal for any connection that
would
> host the service.
> 
> I'm not sure if it could be 'clustered' to show results from different
> geological locations, but if (possibly) three or four were running
> identical configs with their results links posted on the outages.org
> website, it could server the same purpose for all involved?
> 
> Just my 2 cents,
> Michael Haworth
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