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Hi all,

I did put together a very quick and dirty bash script with the following features:

• Stupidly simple to set up - web interface is optional.
• Can be run repeatedly (cron) to monitor miners.
• Restarts stunned/crashed miners, including when the miner hardware hangs.
• Also comes with a PHP script that can display the logs, system update, etc - extremely simple/dumb, no database required.
• It was written with /bin/sh (tested with ash), so it should run on embedded systems with stock OSs, like routers (e.g. ASUS RT-N66U) or BeagleBone/Raspberry Pi.
• Doesn't need a database, just text files. These can be stored in RAM (e.g. /run/shm or /dev/shm) to avoid wear on the SSD storage of an embedded device.

Why did I do it? Well, I checked out some of the paid and free dashboards on these forums and found them to be total overkill. I like simple things. Another annoying thing was that a lot of these dashboards come with Raspberry Pi images. I happen to have a BeagleBoard. I could make the RPi stuff work on my BB, but that's too much work. :P

WARNING: my scripts are very basic... for example, crash detection is based on the presence of a process (e.g. cgminer or bfgminer), whereas  stun detection is based on patterns in miner output (e.g. repeated "Dispatching new work to" messages from minerd/cpuminer is a sign of a stunned miner).

You can grab it here, comments/pull requests/contributions welcome. If anyone wants to make the PHP web page look pretty with some HTML/CSS magic, I won't complain, just send me a pull request on Github.
https://github.com/rouben/crutch (https://github.com/rouben/crutch)