I have just spoken with one of my fellow engineers, he is monitoring a mining rig with PRTG, I don't want to let him win at monitoring, does anyone monitor their mining rig with Solarwinds?
If so, how do you do it? custom poller?
Hi,
Can we know about the Mining Rig in simple way and what component of Rig you want to monitor, So we can understand and try to figure out, how we can achieve from solarwinds
Yes lets break it down,
This is a mining rig.
And this is a ASICs mining rig,
I've found a bit of software that will monitor the hardware but this software is limited to monitoring 1 mining rig only without significant investment, but obviously i'd like my monitoring to be incorporated into Solarwinds as I already have the rest of my network being monitored with Solarwinds.
Cryptocurrency mining is big news, with data centres setup specifically for mining.
Solarwinds is missing a trick by not providing a template to monitor these devices.
I want to monitor my Cryptocurrency mining operation.
Each device has some kind of motherboard, a huge number of GPU's, and numerous fans. I want to know when :
1. One of my devices goes offline.
2. When the GPU's overheat.
3. When the fans fail.
4. When profitability falls.
5. When its time to change to a different currency.
6. Current Hashrate.
7. CPU / Memory / Disk space.
So if I had 400 ASICs miners mining away I wonder what my best approach to monitor these devices would be?
thanks for explaining about.
Have you added the device using the snmp, If yes, please run the snmp walk to get the details of all OID's. that OID you can send to SW developer to add them into SolarWinds MIB file.
thanks
Can you access his PRTG setup and find out what SNMP OIDs he is using?
I doubt that there is specific MIB for the miners, as most (i have played with a few) run on pretty single purpose miner daemons (which are not SNMP instrumented), so it is probably the standard SNMP OIDs, for CPU, memory, etc, but it might save you some time. The PC based mining rigs are easy enough to install either net-snmpd, or an agent onto, however the ASICs may be slightly more challenging, hopefully you have a Raspberry Pi as the controller which you can SNMP or even install an agent onto.
But, as krishnamishra0786 said, a full snmpwalk will show exactly what the device offers.
Yes SNMP walk is my next task. Will be interesting to see what OID's are there for the ASICs miner, if any.
I will get onto his PRTG setup and have a look too.
The first thing I would want to monitor is my power consumption, cost per Kwh and the payback for the coin you are currently mining.
Then
7. When it's time to sell off the current miners and purchase faster ones.
Great points Bob, when those 1080Ti cards start to get old and if they don't process transactions quick enough, time to get rid! With prices of bitcoin in freefall and NVidia currently messing about with its partners, the cards may get significantly cheaper.
Hello,
Can you check with application Developer, where they are writing the log about all error and same log could be useful for us to make a further improvement on monitoring. please check the below link. it can give some more visibility about in mining rig monitoring.
https://blockoperations.com/using-zabbix-monitor-zcash-gpu-miners/
If you happen to use Nvidia cards, there is a lovely WMI extension for it, available from the Nvidia SDK, that you can utilise this with Nvidia GPU Template
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