[Commotion-dev] zabbix / commotion data

[Dan Staples]

Moving this discussion to the Commotion dev list, as Will's explanation 
of his Zabbix setup is generally relevant to ongoing development.

Will, do you know what types of APIs Zabbix provides? If it is available 
via JSON or some easily parsable format, it could be super useful for a 
network dashboard.

On 04/17/2013 01:06 AM, Will Hawkins wrote:
> Should be possible, yes! I can imagine looking that up based on mac
> address or device name (both things that the dhcp server can "see").
>
> Will
>
> On 04/16/2013 07:05 PM, Georgia Bullen wrote:
>> It does! Thanks!
>>
>> One thing we were wondering about is if we can get a sense of device
>> types that are connected to various nodes? I.e. android, iphone, ipod,
>> laptop, desktop, etc. Is that possible?
>>
>> -Georgia
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Will Hawkins
>> <hawkinsw at opentechinstitute.org <mailto:hawkinsw at opentechinstitute.org>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>      At the moment, *nothing* is being collected. We are working through some
>>      issues with our server infrastructure that are holding us up. :-( Nat
>>      should have the server issues corrected sometime tomorrow and I can
>>      actually start collecting the data.
>>
>>      As a quick and dirty base install, I am using a "template" on the nodes
>>      that treats them like UNIX machines. This template will collect
>>      information about system state (like CPU usage, disk usage, network
>>      throughput, etc). There are other customizable templates for OpenWRT
>>      that I am investigating as well. These should give us some specific
>>      collection of wireless "stuff". I don't know much about that yet.
>>      Ideally we will also create templates that collect information about
>>      olsrd, wireless signal quality, etc.
>>
>>      All the data that is collected can be set up to trigger certain actions.
>>      When a data point goes beyond a boundary, someone can get an email, for
>>      example.
>>
>>      I hope that this gives you some idea of what we are going for
>>      (preposition at the end of the sentence!).
>>
>>      Will
>>
>>      On 04/16/2013 06:55 PM, Georgia Bullen wrote:
>>      > Hey Will!
>>      >
>>      > I was talking with some of the field team, and mentioned the data
>>      > collection that you've got working with Zabbix! We were wondering
>>      if you
>>      > could tell us what types of data points are being logged at the
>>      moment?
>>      >
>>      > Thanks!
>>      >
>>      > -Georgia
>>      >
>>      > --
>>      > Georgia Bullen
>>      > Field Operations Technologist, Open Technology Institute
>>      > <http://oti.newamerica.net/>
>>      > New America Foundation
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Georgia Bullen
>> Field Operations Technologist, Open Technology Institute
>> <http://oti.newamerica.net/>
>> New America Foundation
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