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The PHP Weathermap plugin is a very popular tool for mapping the link load of a network environment. It is usually used as a plugin to Cacti or MRTG but as Observium is gaining popularity I decided to make a quick guide for how you get the weathermap nicely integrated with Observium in a way that does not break when updating to newer versions of Observium.
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Home Network Weathermap
Here's an image of my home network. This weathermap updates every minute. Weathermap is done by both MRTG + Network Weathermap php script, and the actual monitoring of other parameters is done by PRTG.
Internet connection is a DOCSIS3.1 Coax connection (1000/100). There's three VLANs in use - one for my home connection, one for the guest Wi-Fi access, and one for the security cameras.
The guest Wi-Fi is beamed out via two 4m+ tall masts, and has up to 10 people connected. The two other Wi-Fi items are internal Wi-Fi. All internal networking is at 1Gbps except for a point to point 10gbps link between my media PC & my desktop PC.
Internet connection is a DOCSIS3.1 Coax connection (1000/100). There's three VLANs in use - one for my home connection, one for the guest Wi-Fi access, and one for the security cameras.
The guest Wi-Fi is beamed out via two 4m+ tall masts, and has up to 10 people connected. The two other Wi-Fi items are internal Wi-Fi. All internal networking is at 1Gbps except for a point to point 10gbps link between my media PC & my desktop PC.
The virtualisation host has another 10 or so VMs on it that aren't graphed. Most of these are archive machines (see archiveteam.org) - they're responsible for me using 27TB of internet last month. I've also got a pi-hole VM, and a few things I'm playing around with.
I also have a server offsite that runs some websites, a TOR relay, some game servers, and another monitoring server.
https://imgur.com/a/diHU2YH
I also have a server offsite that runs some websites, a TOR relay, some game servers, and another monitoring server.
https://imgur.com/a/diHU2YH
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