[ale] home network monitoring

[Pete Hardie]

Thanks for the recommendations

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 12:59 PM, DJ-Pfulio <djpfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

> On 12/11/2015 12:34 PM, Pete Hardie wrote:
> > Yeah, ping tests are my plan for  DIY.  Do you know the names of any
> > off-the-shelf tools for this?
>
> In the old days, there was "big brother".  Simple service checks with a
> dashboard webpage. Certainly there are forked projects - "big sister"
> perhaps?
>
> Nagios is the most popular tool for this today, but ugly to setup on your
> own
> without any background. Nagios can use SNMP, but I don't know how well
> cheap
> home network equipment deals with that.
>
> Munin is pretty easy to setup, plus it captures system stats locally and
> the
> server will "pull" those when they are available again on the network.  I
> use
> Munin here - the trick is to disable graph generation from constant to as
> requested.
>
> Whenever I read stuff like this, makes me happy to have a dedicated
> pfsense box
> for routing, so I don't have to constantly worry about cheap wifi routers
> attempting to provide that. Then I'm able to use the cheapest wifi
> router/AP to
> provide wifi access inside the LAN.  pfsense was forked a few years ago -
> openSense might be interesting for some people here. Heard about it on
> F/LOSS
> Weekly.
>
>
>
> Alex - uh ... how did you get u-verse with static IPs?  I have a friend
> who was
> able to do the same thing, but only because he works there as an architect
> and
> knows the people who control that stuff.  He pretty much hates u-verse TV,
> but
> hates Comcast even more.    er ... so I hear. ;)
>
>
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