Douglas Muth on 23 Sep 2010 19:18:05 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Monitoring a remote site

  • From: Douglas Muth <doug.muth@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] Monitoring a remote site
  • Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:17:57 -0400
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Doug Crompton <doug@crompton.com> wrote:
>
> I have a remote site where I want to monitor at a minimum temperature. I
> have an NSLU2 fully loaded with Lenny, Apache2, Perl, PHP, Python, Mysql,
> etc. I also have OWFS installed and running with multiple temperature
> sensors.
>
> I want to locate this box at my vacation home for monitoring. At that
> location I have DSL with dynamic IP assignment.
>
> At the monitoring location I have DSL with static IP.
>
[snip]

What you describe sounds like it could be accomplished with Munin:

http://munin-monitoring.org/

Set up a munin server on your static machine, and run munin-node on
the dynamic machine, configured to send its results to the server.

-- Doug
http://twitter.com/dmuth
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