Pulp Free: Status

With the recent ice storms and power outages we’ve been having in Saint Louis, a little flaw in my remote Linksys status script threw a pretty big wrench into my Cacti monitoring. The WGET that I use to fetch the status file from my home server doesn’t work with timeouts (who knows why… just never has…) So since my network connection to the Internet has also been down - the available connections start piling up on my hosting server and eventually all of the Web sites stop work. Nice, huh?

So until I get my scripts changed around to account for this problem, there won’t be any updates on the Linksys router or the Washboard server. I’ll get it up eventually! I’m hoping to actually keep the Web sites running more than I need to see the zero percent utilization of my routers!

I spent a few minutes switching my Linksys WRT54GS router back to Tomato firmware last night after not really getting much more out of DD-WRT. Well, I actually switched back to DD in order to work on getting some metrics out of it (since it supports SNMP) but never got around to actually hooking up Cacti to it. And I missed some of the real-time metrics built into Tomato…

However, I still wanted to get some metrics into Cacti so I resorted to writing a few more scripts to do in manually (since Tomato does not have SNMP support). Now I get the best of both worlds! I’m only trending network, CPU and memory so it’s not like it’s I’ve invented anti-gravity or anything… But I’m happy with it!

Welcome to the Pulp Free:Status Web site and associated metrics, trending and Web stats. Here you’ll find where I seeming waste a lot of time on collecting, managing and displaying data that truely have no impact on anything at all.