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. 

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: *&lt;dc3-bounces(a)listas.altermundi.net&gt; on behalf of Michael Oghia < mike.oghia(a)gmail.com&gt; *Reply-To: *Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity < dc3(a)listas.altermundi.net&gt; *Date: *Wednesday, August 9, 2017 at 5:33 AM *To: *Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity < dc3(a)listas.altermundi.net&gt; *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 &lt;alexislauracullen(a)gmail.com&gt; 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 _______________________________________________ DC3 mailing list DC3(a)listas.altermundi.net https://listas.altermundi.net/mailman/listinfo/dc3 _______________________________________________ DC3 mailing list DC3(a)listas.altermundi.net https://listas.altermundi.net/mailman/listinfo/dc3

On Wed, 2017-08-09 at 13:52 +1100, Alexis Cullen wrote: Hi Alexis, Congratulations for your project! 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. Better Open than closed ;) Regards, _______________________________________________ DC3 mailing list DC3(a)listas.altermundi.net https://listas.altermundi.net/mailman/listinfo/dc3