two scripts I use for my nodes:

a simple node checker script for your console:

see it in action: https://asciinema.org/a/13147

code: https://gist.github.com/emre/b9b84f51426be1e4910f#file-nodechecker-py

(you need to install requests and clint library to run this.)

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auto installer for ubuntu

- automatic hallmark creation/ip detection
- node monitoring included. (restarts if something happens to node)

https://gist.github.com/emre/b9b84f51426be1e4910f#file-installer-py

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