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Board Mining software (miners)
Re: Linux mining distro for the Raspberry PI - MinePeon
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BitMinerN8
on 04/08/2013, 17:32:47 UTC
Brilliant, can't wait for it. Any ideas on when it will be?

I was hoping to get a version out this weekend, but I have been a tad ill and I have only just started testing stuff with any real earnest.

Also is there an update processes to minimize miner downtime? Or can we update stuff like the WebUI without bringing down the whole miner?

Not his time, normal you can just pull from git (I will be including that in the WebUI soon too) but there are a lot of changes going on.  Some of the changes are to the OS even and not a matter of git pulling.

Also have you thought about/are there snmp tools on it? Or is it something that we could install ourselves?

SNMP is there, it is not much use though on the raspberry pi (the network interface is not even supported because it is not on the PCI bus, the pi does not even have a PCI bus).  What were you thinking that the functionality of SNMP anyways?  You may have a use that I was not thinking of.

Neil

Well for the SNMP I'm setting up an Icinga server in the near future, and it's basically so I can keep an eye on it in a central monitoring environment.

Or the NRPE Agent, as Nagios is another good monitoring system. I found this, but have not got it all running yet: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nagios-nrpe/

I used to use NRPE on my Debian rigs when I used to GPU mine, to send me alerts when cgminer had stopped or the general "is it pingable". But I have to say, with Minepeon it's not really a concern much anymore, if cgminer crashes it just restarts it.

I would like to get the whole Nagios/NRPE setup, but it's just to satisfy the need to tinker, more stats and graphs. Grin

So for now I have just opted to use a Pi running Raspbian with apache, and run the miner.php included in cgminer source. Then I can at least have full overview of the mining farm on one page, and it works on mobile/tablet. Cool