I work as an MSP for a fairly small but stable company (2 person company with 20 years in business serving clients with 2-30 or so users).
A dozen or so of our clients have expressed interest in having their networks/systems monitored in real-time. I'm having a difficult time trying to figure out a cheap (as in free) way to setup my own "NOC" of sorts at my home office. I have plenty of spare screens sitting around, and envisioned having something like dashboard with all our various clients' network status displayed and updated in real-time.
On the surface I can see having to manage multiple VPN connections from my home network to each client, but how would I deal with network address conflicts (most of our clients are inherited, and changing ip addresses for no real reason is a tough sell).
On my end I would use a completely random network address, likely in the 172.16/12 range (I've only seen a handful of companies in all my days use this range). How would I go about isolating each VPN connection from each other? On the same note, how would I manage multiple different VPN connections (with a mix of VPN types of course).
Or am I missing an elegant and simple solution? I guess you could say I'd like to build my own NOC capable of watching over the networks and system of multiple different clients on the cheap :)
TL/DR: How are you managing the status of multiple client networks from a single location in (near)real-time?
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