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: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...