<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks for the recommendations<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 12:59 PM, DJ-Pfulio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:djpfulio@jdpfu.com" target="_blank">djpfulio@jdpfu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 12/11/2015 12:34 PM, Pete Hardie wrote:<br>
> Yeah, ping tests are my plan for DIY. Do you know the names of any<br>
> off-the-shelf tools for this?<br>
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</span>In the old days, there was "big brother". Simple service checks with a<br>
dashboard webpage. Certainly there are forked projects - "big sister" perhaps?<br>
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Nagios is the most popular tool for this today, but ugly to setup on your own<br>
without any background. Nagios can use SNMP, but I don't know how well cheap<br>
home network equipment deals with that.<br>
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Munin is pretty easy to setup, plus it captures system stats locally and the<br>
server will "pull" those when they are available again on the network. I use<br>
Munin here - the trick is to disable graph generation from constant to as requested.<br>
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Whenever I read stuff like this, makes me happy to have a dedicated pfsense box<br>
for routing, so I don't have to constantly worry about cheap wifi routers<br>
attempting to provide that. Then I'm able to use the cheapest wifi router/AP to<br>
provide wifi access inside the LAN. pfsense was forked a few years ago -<br>
openSense might be interesting for some people here. Heard about it on F/LOSS<br>
Weekly.<br>
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Alex - uh ... how did you get u-verse with static IPs? I have a friend who was<br>
able to do the same thing, but only because he works there as an architect and<br>
knows the people who control that stuff. He pretty much hates u-verse TV, but<br>
hates Comcast even more. er ... so I hear. ;)<br>
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