Query on remote IP monitoring of devices

[Atanu Garai]

Hi Team

We are doing a telemedicine project that requires providing connectivity to remote devices (laptops connected to router/ dongle) to check if the internet connectivity is on or off and the bandwidth. I am wondering if there is any small app that can be installed in the laptop to ping a server and tthen store the ping with timestamps locally and then transfer to a server periodically.

Thanks a lot.

Best regards

Atanu

[Rajeev R. K.]

Dear Atanu,

What you're looking to do is a very rudimentary network monitoring system. If you are looking to do this in a large scale, why not bite the bullet, and deploy a full fledged monitoring platform, and use it to monitor a lot more than just connectivity and bandwidth usage?

There are even fully open source systems like zabbix that will cost you nothing to deploy, other than the effort involved in setting it up on a spare server or cloud instance. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabbix has details about it, and a link to the official site, if you want to see a demo or try it out.

Regards

RajeevRK

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[Dr. Monit Kapoor]

Dear Atanu,

A cron job can be written on top of  linux machine to check network state on target machines.

Step1 : Write a script to ping the subnet machines

Step 2: Pipe the output in append mode from the script

Step 3 : Set up a cron job that triggers at your provided intervals on a Linux machine from where network is distributed. The cron job executes the script developed.

Step 4: Develop a Dashboard that reads the file of network health and provides visualization using Python or HTML on the browser 

I hope it helps.

Regards

Monit Kapoor

Ph.D - Engineering, M.Tech - C.S.E, B.Engg - Electrical

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9036-6115

www.upes.ac.in

 

 

 

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[Atanu Garai]

Dear Rajeev,

Thank you. I am looking at Zabbix. However, would like to mention a few 'full-fledged monitoring platform' for this purpose? Does Zabbix fall into this category?

Best regards

Atanu

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[Atanu Garai]

Dear Monit

Absolutely agree this is a viable solution that can be done. I am just looking at if this already exists, so we would use that instead of creating a new one.

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Atanu

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[Rajeev R. K.]

Dear Atanu,

Yes, Zabbix is a full fledged monitoring platform, and in many ways can compete with Commercial monitoring systems like HP OpenView or SolarWinds. While there are a number of other open source Network Management Systems, the reason I mentioned Zabbix is familiarity - I have used it quite extensively at a number of sites of mine, monitoring everything from servers, switches, Weighing Machines(Dont Ask!!), routers and even little wifi routers at remote locations. It's well documented and pretty easy to set up, if you know your way around linux, and if not, you can find a consultant to help you quite easily.

If you wish to explore more options, might i suggest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_network_monitoring_systems

Thanks and Regards

R. K. Rajeev
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[Atanu Garai]

Dear Rajeev,

Thanks for those examples, surely we do have those many and more devices (mostly remote point of care digital diagnostic devices). I would explore Zabbix primarily.

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Atanu

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[Rajeev R. K.]

Dear Atanu,

Since you're looking at remote medical diagnostic equipment, i'm guessing you are also interfacing with some imaging units (X-Rays, CT Scans, Ultrasounds Etc). You might also want to check out some open source PACS/DICOM Servers, which will allow you to have all the diagnostics be collected at a central location, and easily delegated to doctors or clinical technicians who may be working remotely.

To start out, you could Check out https://www.orthanc-server.com/ and https://mehmetsen80.github.io/EasyPACS/

Thanks and Regards

R. K. Rajeev
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[Atanu Garai]

Dear Rajeev

Many thanks for sharing this. I am now reviewing the documentation and will request your guidance on this.

Best regards

Atanu

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