<div style="white-space:pre-wrap">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..<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 7:38 PM Graham Freeman <<a href="mailto:graham@nerdventures.com">graham@nerdventures.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>I've had 1 Pi fail out of 20. So, reliable enough, though of course not a huge sample size.</div><div><br></div><div>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. :)</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Graham Freeman, Principal Nerd</span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://nerdventures.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">NerdVentures.com</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="tel:+1-510-898-6772" value="+15108986772" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">+1-510-898-6772</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="mailto:graham@nerdventures.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">graham@nerdventures.com</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamfreeman" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamfreeman</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/get_nerdy" target="_blank">@get_nerdy</a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 February 2016 at 16:26, Chris Aloi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ctaloi@gmail.com" target="_blank">ctaloi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>You have pi's deployed on the customer premise running smoke ping ?</div><div>Great idea, have they been reliable ? I've only played with them - never production. How do you handle managing a pi fleet ? <br><br><div>---</div><div>Christopher Aloi</div>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><div><div><br>On Feb 11, 2016, at 3:36 PM, Graham Freeman <<a href="mailto:graham@nerdventures.com" target="_blank">graham@nerdventures.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>I use and like <a href="http://statuscake.com" target="_blank">StatusCake.com</a> as a hosted monitoring provider, and SmokePing as an internally-managed monitoring tool.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>good luck,</div><br><div>
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