1. Front end for monitoring Mesh Network By Lesetsa Mojapelo Supervisor: Prof. W.D. Tucker Co-Supervisor: Mr M. Norman Mentor: Mr Carlos Rey-Moreno

2. INTRODUCTION The front end will provide a dashboard to visualize information collected from various parameters Easier for network managers to monitor or manage the network Three main things to visualize o Link Quality o Network topology map o Router/Node information

3. IMPLIMENTATION

4. Tools MySQL Apache server RRDTOOL PHP, JS

5. Project Plan Term1 Research on possible project Finalize the project Gather user requirements and Analysis Interview with network manager Research on related work/similar projects Term 2 Designing and preparing the prototype Learn Google API programming Design UI inline with URD create HLD create LLD Create prototype Term 3 Implementation Make changes to the user interface if necessary Add more functionality Learn rrdtool for graphs Start coding and documenting Term 4 Testing and Evaluation Plan the test-bed network Setup the network Test and Debug Write user Manual

6. References Geocodezip.com (2011) Google Maps API links. [online] Available at: http://www.geocodezip.com [Accessed: 19 May 2013]. Developers.google.com (2012) Google Maps Developer Documentation - Google Maps API — Google Developers. [online] Available at: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation [Accessed: 20 May 2013]. Oss.oetiker.ch. 1999. RRDtool - rrdtutorial. [online] Available at: http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/tut/rrdtutorial.en.html [Accessed: 10 Sep 2013].

7. DEMO Create a network o Add node View the network topology map View node list and graphs