9 Aug
2017
9 Aug
'17
5:38 a.m.
On Wed, 2017-08-09 at 13:52 +1100, Alexis Cullen wrote:
Hello DC3!
Hello, I'm new to the group. My name is Alexis Cullen, and I'm from
the USA originally, but am now living in Vanuatu & have been for the
past 4 years (I was a Peace Corps Volunteer here in a remote village
and my husband and I decided to try and stay in Vanuatu rather than
return to the USA after our service, as we love it here)
I've been working for the past three years with Maewo Island and
together we've built a community network (after advocating for
connectivity through traditional routes failed). Some of our
information is on this website mtc.invanuatu.com and facebook page
here: https://www.facebook.com/MaewoWifi/, but we are in dire need of
updating.
Hi Alexis,
Congratulations for your project!
I'm writing because I was hoping to find out what
people were using
for dashboards to monitor their networks??
I guess this space is not the best for this question :)
I see that you are using Mikrotik devices... they have their own
administration tools that are very good for mantaining
infrastructure... have you tried them?
In LibreMesh networks (an Open Source OS for Community Networks) we
just collect metrics using CollectD.
I have a friend who codes, and he created a custom
solution for us.
He's planning to share it open source on Github. It pulls data from
the network through a mikrotik router & raspberry pi combo. Happy to
send our documentation to anyone who is curious.
Better Open than closed ;)
Regards,