The Debian Telemetry Box

SquadBoy writes "The fine people at Debian have created a Telemetry Box Distribution this is what they have to say about it. "Version 1.0 of the Telemetry Box Distribution has finally been released. The Tbox distribution is a Debian GNU/Linux 'potato' based custom Linux version for remote monitoring and maintenance of networks. A telemetry box allows remote management and diagnostics. It uses a customized version of netsaint to gather data. Netsaint has been enhanced so that the configuration is possible via the Tbox Webinterface through SQL structures. Netsaint logs into a SQL table. Tools on the Tbox can then display the data in a variety of ways (graphs or reports)."" Storie's a bit old, but it's a cool little box.

Comments

Re:for network monitoring...

[noahm]

MRTG? Hah! That's not only obsolete but even the original author has ditched it for something better. Check out RRDtool and any of the many many front ends available. I use Cricket myself, and have found it to be *very* cool.

...Cricket is so cool, in fact, that I had a thoroughly wonderful time at LISA informing a vendor that their product was just about completely useless because it didn't do anything that I wasn't already doing with cricket! By the end of it they even agreed with me that that their features did provide any advantage over cricket. I don't remember who they were, though...

Check out http://cricket.sourceforge.net/

noah

Re:Sigh

[GC]

Any time you see something advertise that it has a web interface, you know that you're about to be confronted with something that lacks all the power of the command line AND lacks all the ease of use of a conventional gui application. These things make my ears steam.


No - It does have a command line version. The Web Interface is an extended feature, you can disable it if you want.

Re:Hmmm...

[knarf]

a whole box dedicated for monitoring? Hmm...ssh and GNU tools seemed good enough for monitoring for me....

For you maybe... for (insert company/organization with big network here) not. If your company relies on those network/service monitoring boxes, they'd better be stable and left to their job. For these applications, a dedicated monitoring box is probably the best way to go, since you can just install it and put a big 'do not disturb' sign on the console. With hardware prices being what they are now, this will save you both time and money, since it makes management of the monitoring infrastructure a whole lot easier...