[165193] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Q] What is your favorite Network Tools Live CD / USB, which
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher X. Candreva)
Thu Aug 22 21:18:05 2013
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:17:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CACk08n9YQ0vmzSs3ARHH_2fnrg2sXhxj-ognmcR=eHJAZ0OCaQ@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Stefan wrote:
> a completely different purpose: I would like to put it in the hands of all
> remote offices we have on our network, and use it to have local systems
> boot out of it, and help us then run troubleshooting tools, from the
> central office, by SSH/X-ing into the remote live system (e.g. iperf,
> hping3, httping, tcping, mtr, tcpdump, voip tools, some "thin"
> clients/apps, synthetic transactions scripted to run at diff time
> intervals, and report back to us the "health" seen form the remotes, etc.).
I'm toying with a similar idea, though of putting a Raspberry Pi in remote
offices to do tests from. I'm just looking for something I can ssh too,
however, it also doesn't seem like much of a stretch to put some kind of
web-based screen that someone in the office could run an automated scan, and
read us off information that might help.
==========================================================
Chris Candreva -- chris@westnet.com -- (914) 948-3162
WestNet Internet Services of Westchester
http://www.westnet.com/
