Teamviewer to a $150 laptop sitting on the same network as the miners. There's also network controlled PDUs for manually restarting miners.
Thanks. TV is not an option for me, for several reasons. First, I don't like it :-) Second: I have several miners in several networks, so I would need like 10+ cheap laptops. And now that summer is coming, I'll have to put miners on other places, too.
There are obviously some programs around like CGRemote which looks great, however, it an environment like mine which is kind of wild, it would also mean a lot of work to set everything up. And I AM a lazy bastard...
Walking the dog, I had the following idea: Wouldn't it be possible to write a script which reads out the main data, ftp's it to a server where it will be digested by a php-script?
Hm, I'll give it a try this weekend for the ant-miners.
Or are there reasons why this shouldn't work?
I have posted a bfgminer/KnCMiner specific method of query using only stock busybox commands.
It is bfgminer specific as written, as I query KnC specific core data unavailable with cgminer.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=313978.msg5767968#msg5767968Saving an API query to a file is possible using common tools.
The relevant info from that post.
echo "procs|" > /tmp/procs.cmd
nc localhost 4028 < /tmp/procs.cmd > /tmp/nc.procs.out
Change "procs|" above to whatever API query you want.
It would be trivial to tftp the output from bfg or cg out for remote processing.
(stock KnC *nix does not have ftp but has tftp if you could make it work within your security needs)
scp would be a better choice.
A RasPi might be needed depending on the flexability of different miner OS etc.
For basic monitoring cg or bfg should work equally.
I feed the output from the API query into awk (it's what I had on a stock miner) and print some stats etc.
Remotely you have your choice of processing method.
YMMV