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So I've been thinking about what could be broadly described as telemetry. Specifically, a way for FreeNAS 10 to send regular status updates via an interface to a device that's doing something with that data.
I think an example would help clear things up:
Imagine a hardware fan controller (since Supermicro's fan control is so simple and inflexible). It could receive regular updates of current disk temperatures (from SMART), CPU/System temperatures (from IPMI or directly from system sensors) as well as some load statistics (from the current reporting infrastructure) for some proactive fan control. In this case, the interface could be Serial (those RS-232 ports are of no use idle) or perhaps over IP networking.
Another scenario that comes to mind is a centralized monitoring system - for this one, IP networking sounds like the best option.
I wanted to get a feeling for what the community thinks about
I think an example would help clear things up:
Imagine a hardware fan controller (since Supermicro's fan control is so simple and inflexible). It could receive regular updates of current disk temperatures (from SMART), CPU/System temperatures (from IPMI or directly from system sensors) as well as some load statistics (from the current reporting infrastructure) for some proactive fan control. In this case, the interface could be Serial (those RS-232 ports are of no use idle) or perhaps over IP networking.
Another scenario that comes to mind is a centralized monitoring system - for this one, IP networking sounds like the best option.
I wanted to get a feeling for what the community thinks about
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