9 Aug
2017
9 Aug
'17
2:52 a.m.
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.
I'm writing because I was hoping to find out what people were using for
dashboards to monitor their networks??
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.
He started helping because we use Kacific Broadband Satellite for our
backhaul and OpenDNS wouldn't work with their configurations . . .we were
trying to get access to our own data and having a really hard time. Thus
the custom script. Now we have data coming back to us, but no dashboard to
interpret the raw data. My friend was going to code this for us, but he's
flat out at the moment, busy with a lot of other projects.
I suppose my question is whether or not we reinvented the wheel with our
custom code, and what others are using to monitor their networks. Is
anyone developing any solutions that they would be willing to share with
us? We'd be so grateful!
Thank you!
Alexis
9 Aug
9 Aug
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,
12 Aug
12 Aug
12:57 a.m.
Thank you Nicolas!
We'll look into utilizing CollectD and making better use of the Mikrotiks .
. . we chose the mikrotik for the ability to do hotspots/create vouchers in
case the community needed to collect a little bit of revenue in order to
pay for the internet back-haul . . . the community is still figuring out
which option they want to go with in order to pay the ongoing monthly ISP
fee. . .
I'm non-technical (myself and the community are learning as we go), but we
have a few friends/technical volunteers helping us, so we'll comb through
all the feedback from DC3.
Thanks everyone!
Alexis
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Nicolas Pace <nico(a)libre.ws> wrote:
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,
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3:52 a.m.
Hi Alexis,
Welcome to the CN club :) Great to learn about your initiative in Vanuatu.
There are a few monitoring tools available, LibreNMS as suggested by Steve
would, I guess, be your best option. Otherwise Observium, OpenNMS, Cacti,
Icinga or Nagios are the most well known ones.
Cheers,
Amreesh
On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 2:57 AM, Alexis Cullen <alexislauracullen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Thank you Nicolas!
We'll look into utilizing CollectD and making better use of the Mikrotiks
. . . we chose the mikrotik for the ability to do hotspots/create vouchers
in case the community needed to collect a little bit of revenue in order to
pay for the internet back-haul . . . the community is still figuring out
which option they want to go with in order to pay the ongoing monthly ISP
fee. . .
I'm non-technical (myself and the community are learning as we go), but we
have a few friends/technical volunteers helping us, so we'll comb through
all the feedback from DC3.
Thanks everyone!
Alexis
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Nicolas Pace <nico(a)libre.ws> wrote:
--
Amreesh Phokeer
On Wed, 2017-08-09 at 13:52 +1100, Alexis Cullen
wrote:
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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,
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9 Aug
9 Aug
9:33 a.m.
Hi Alexis, all:
It's a pleasure to see you here. For all of those who are unfamiliar with
Alexis' work, they have been instrumental to bringing the Internet to
Vanuatu as well as promoting telemedicine (read more here
<http://1worldconnected.org/2017/05/10/isoc-1-world-connected-blog-series-vanuatu-inter-island-telemedicine-learning-project/>
).
@Alexis: another resource is our list of resources:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lp5DTB2Bso4Uz7yn3f7yza90Z9iqm6sUCONyLCc…
Best,
-Michael
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 4:52 AM, Alexis Cullen <alexislauracullen(a)gmail.com>
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/Maewo
Wifi/, but we are in dire need of updating.
I'm writing because I was hoping to find out what people were using for
dashboards to monitor their networks??
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.
He started helping because we use Kacific Broadband Satellite for our
backhaul and OpenDNS wouldn't work with their configurations . . .we were
trying to get access to our own data and having a really hard time. Thus
the custom script. Now we have data coming back to us, but no dashboard to
interpret the raw data. My friend was going to code this for us, but he's
flat out at the moment, busy with a lot of other projects.
I suppose my question is whether or not we reinvented the wheel with our
custom code, and what others are using to monitor their networks. Is
anyone developing any solutions that they would be willing to share with
us? We'd be so grateful!
Thank you!
Alexis
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11:37 a.m.
Alexis –
If you need help editing data for more case-study info – we have someone who can help.
Or, if you want to record a case-study and have us transcribe it – we can do that, too.
Other CN People – same goes for all of you. And, if you have the stories in French or
Spanish – no worries – same person deals with all 3 languagues.
This offer is out there until about 15 September so let us know. We know that most of you
running networks need to run them.
Best,
Jane
Internet Society | www.internetsociety.org
Skype: janercoffin
Mobile/WhatsApp: +1.202.247.8429
From: <dc3-bounces(a)listas.altermundi.net> on behalf of Michael Oghia
<mike.oghia(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity <dc3(a)listas.altermundi.net>
Date: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 at 5:33 AM
To: Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity <dc3(a)listas.altermundi.net>
Subject: Re: [DC3] Hello DC3! Seeking Advice Re: Open Source Monitoring/Dashboards for
Community Networks
Hi Alexis, all:
It's a pleasure to see you here. For all of those who are unfamiliar with
Alexis' work, they have been instrumental to bringing the Internet to Vanuatu as well
as promoting telemedicine (read more here).
@Alexis: another resource is our list of resources:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lp5DTB2Bso4Uz7yn3f7yza90Z9iqm6sUCONyLCc…
Best,
-Michael
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 4:52 AM, Alexis Cullen <alexislauracullen(a)gmail.com> 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.
I'm writing because I was hoping to find out what people were using for dashboards to
monitor their networks??
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.
He started helping because we use Kacific Broadband Satellite for our backhaul and OpenDNS
wouldn't work with their configurations . . .we were trying to get access to our own
data and having a really hard time. Thus the custom script. Now we have data coming back
to us, but no dashboard to interpret the raw data. My friend was going to code this for
us, but he's flat out at the moment, busy with a lot of other projects.
I suppose my question is whether or not we reinvented the wheel with our custom code, and
what others are using to monitor their networks. Is anyone developing any solutions that
they would be willing to share with us? We'd be so grateful!
Thank you!
Alexis
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12 Aug
12 Aug
12:46 a.m.
Jane,
This is an incredible offer! Thank you, will contact you off list to
further the discussion.
Thank you : )
Alexis
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 10:37 PM, Jane Coffin <coffin(a)isoc.org> wrote:
Alexis –
If you need help editing data for more case-study info – we have someone
who can help.
Or, if you want to record a case-study and have us transcribe it – we can
do that, too.
Other CN People – same goes for all of you. And, if you have the stories
in French or Spanish – no worries – same person deals with all 3 languagues.
This offer is out there until about 15 September so let us know. We know
that most of you running networks need to run them.
Best,
Jane
Internet Society | www.internetsociety.org
Skype: janercoffin
Mobile/WhatsApp: +1.202.247.8429 <(202)%20247-8429>
*From: *<dc3-bounces(a)listas.altermundi.net> on behalf of Michael Oghia <
mike.oghia(a)gmail.com>
*Reply-To: *Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity <
dc3(a)listas.altermundi.net>
*Date: *Wednesday, August 9, 2017 at 5:33 AM
*To: *Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity <
dc3(a)listas.altermundi.net>
*Subject: *Re: [DC3] Hello DC3! Seeking Advice Re: Open Source
Monitoring/Dashboards for Community Networks
Hi Alexis, all:
It's a pleasure to see you here. For all of those who are unfamiliar with
Alexis' work, they have been instrumental to bringing the Internet to
Vanuatu as well as promoting telemedicine (read more here
<http://1worldconnected.org/2017/05/10/isoc-1-world-connected-blog-series-vanuatu-inter-island-telemedicine-learning-project/>
).
@Alexis: another resource is our list of resources: https://docs.
google.com/document/d/1Lp5DTB2Bso4Uz7yn3f7yza90Z9iqm6sUCONyLCcFWqc/edit
Best,
-Michael
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 4:52 AM, Alexis Cullen <alexislauracullen(a)gmail.com>
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.
I'm writing because I was hoping to find out what people were using for
dashboards to monitor their networks??
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.
He started helping because we use Kacific Broadband Satellite for our
backhaul and OpenDNS wouldn't work with their configurations . . .we were
trying to get access to our own data and having a really hard time. Thus
the custom script. Now we have data coming back to us, but no dashboard to
interpret the raw data. My friend was going to code this for us, but he's
flat out at the moment, busy with a lot of other projects.
I suppose my question is whether or not we reinvented the wheel with our
custom code, and what others are using to monitor their networks. Is
anyone developing any solutions that they would be willing to share with
us? We'd be so grateful!
Thank you!
Alexis
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9 Aug
9 Aug
1:51 p.m.
Hi Alexis,
My colleagues at the Network Startup Resource Center tend to use LibreNMS (
http://www.librenms.org/)
Cheers... Steve Song
On 8 August 2017 at 23:52, Alexis Cullen <alexislauracullen(a)gmail.com>
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/Maewo
Wifi/, but we are in dire need of updating.
I'm writing because I was hoping to find out what people were using for
dashboards to monitor their networks??
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.
He started helping because we use Kacific Broadband Satellite for our
backhaul and OpenDNS wouldn't work with their configurations . . .we were
trying to get access to our own data and having a really hard time. Thus
the custom script. Now we have data coming back to us, but no dashboard to
interpret the raw data. My friend was going to code this for us, but he's
flat out at the moment, busy with a lot of other projects.
I suppose my question is whether or not we reinvented the wheel with our
custom code, and what others are using to monitor their networks. Is
anyone developing any solutions that they would be willing to share with
us? We'd be so grateful!
Thank you!
Alexis
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12 Aug
12 Aug
12:47 a.m.
Dear Steve,
Thank you! Will look into LibreNMS : )
We really appreciate the lead!
Alexis
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 12:51 AM, Steve Song <steve(a)villagetelco.org> wrote:
Hi Alexis,
My colleagues at the Network Startup Resource Center tend to use LibreNMS (
http://www.librenms.org/)
Cheers... Steve Song
On 8 August 2017 at 23:52, Alexis Cullen <alexislauracullen(a)gmail.com>
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/Maewo
Wifi/, but we are in dire need of updating.
I'm writing because I was hoping to find out what people were using for
dashboards to monitor their networks??
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.
He started helping because we use Kacific Broadband Satellite for our
backhaul and OpenDNS wouldn't work with their configurations . . .we were
trying to get access to our own data and having a really hard time. Thus
the custom script. Now we have data coming back to us, but no dashboard to
interpret the raw data. My friend was going to code this for us, but he's
flat out at the moment, busy with a lot of other projects.
I suppose my question is whether or not we reinvented the wheel with our
custom code, and what others are using to monitor their networks. Is
anyone developing any solutions that they would be willing to share with
us? We'd be so grateful!
Thank you!
Alexis
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