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We temporarily entered the machines as monitors in the PingER meta data base of hosts and successfully gathered the data using the stabdard standard overnight cronjob.
Deployment
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Some information on this can be found in ePingER Management. We have not determined how or if to apply patches automatically.
We also do not trim the data files (in /usr/local/share/pinger/ping-yyyy-mm.txt)date to say the last 60 days. Thus the datafiles will grow indefinitely. Since they are gathered from the archive sites daily they should be trimmed.
Experiences
Marco any concerns about flash memory and repeated accesses, lifetime etc.?