Dashboards power by thin clients

[nicholab]

How do you display your network dashboards and Azure stats?  Is anyone using Wyse thin clients, as I understand they have a Chromium browser?

[lparry]

I'd personally just image them with your favorite flavour of Linux and set it to autolaunch chrome in kiosk mode.

 

If you are using Grafana - theres a handy automated thing already made! (https://github.com/grafana/grafana-kiosk)

[dhicks]

20 minutes ago, nicholab said:

How do you display your network dashboards and Azure stats?

 

For general display purposes (dashboards, slideshows, etc), we use ChromeOS devices in kiosk mode, which are then managable from the Google Workspace admin console. We tend to use cheap (£200) mini PCs from Amazon with ChromeOS Flex installed, but dedicated devices are available, including OPS devices if you want a neater, all-in-one solution. Otherwise, Raspberry Pi OS might be an option - either with a Raspberry Pi (I find the older Pi 3s can generally be powered from the USB port of most modern "smart" TVs, but the newer Pi 4s and 5s take a bit too much power, so you need a separate plug for the power supply) or, again, a cheap Mini PC formatted with Raspberry Pi OS. I had a script from a while back that could set up a default Raspberry Pi OS install (actual Pi or Intel hardware) to be a kiosk device:

 

https://github.com/dhicks6345789/device-config

 

The script might well need updating as I haven't touched it in a few years.