niccokunzmann / network-status-monitor

monitoring the local network status and internet connection

Network Status Monitor

This is a simple background monitor which creates statistics about how the network is behaving. It can run as a background job on a raspberry pi or an openWRT router.

Features:

• Internet availibility check using ping
• Internet availibility check using wget
• Checking if certain MAC-adresses can be reached
• traceroute to see where the traffic stops

Installation

Clone this repository.

Then, make it run at startup, see here for example. I use crontab:

crontab -e

Then, I added this line:

@reboot /home/pi/network-status-monitor/bin/background

Packages

Commands used:

• wget
• curl
• python3 for the server, not required to just record statistics
• ip
• traceroute
• bash
• ping
• git for updating/cloning
• iwlist as /sbin/iwlist for listing WIFI networks

Also used bu usually there: dirname, cd, mkdir, seq

Server

You can use the Python3 CGI server to serve the statistics.

Implementation

We use chart.js.