docs: update outdated monitoring documentation

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Announcing Node Information
===========================
Node monitoring
===============
Gluon is capable of announcing information about each node to the mesh
and to neighbouring nodes. This allows nodes to learn each others hostname,
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Format of collected data
------------------------
Information to be announced is currently split into two categories:
Information to be announced is currently split into three categories:
nodeinfo
In this category (mostly) static information is collected. If
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This category holds fast changing data, like traffic counters, uptime,
system load or the selected gateway.
Both categories will have a ``node_id`` key by default. It should be used to
match data from *statistics* to *nodeinfo*.
neighbours
`neighbours` contains information about all neighbouring nodes of all
interfaces. This data can be used to determine the network topology.
All categories will have a ``node_id`` key. It should be used to
relate data of different catagories.
Accessing Node Information
--------------------------
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.. _alfred-json: https://github.com/tcatm/alfred-json
`nodeinfo` is distributed as alfred datatype `158`, while `statistics` uses
`159`. Both are compressed using GZip (alfred-json can handle the decompression).
The following datatypes are used:
* `nodeinfo`: 158
* `statistics`: 159
* `neighbours`: 160
All data is compressed using GZip (alfred-json can handle the decompression).
In order to retrieve statistics data you could run:
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.. _README: http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/alfred/repository/revisions/master/entry/README
gluon-announced
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
gluon-respondd
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
`gluon-announced` allows querying neighbouring nodes for their `nodeinfo`.
`gluon-respondd` allows querying neighbouring nodes for their information.
It is a daemon listening on the multicast address ``ff02::2:1001`` on
UDP port 1001 on the bare mesh interfaces.
UDP port 1001 on both the bare mesh interfaces and `br-client`. Unicast
requests are supported as well.
The supported requests are:
* ``nodeinfo``, ``statistics``, ``neighbours``: Returns the data of single category uncompressed.
* ``GET nodeinfo``, ...: Returns the data of one or multiple categories (separated by spaces)
compressed using the `deflate` algorithm (without a gzip header). The data may
be decompressed using zlib and many zlib bindings using -15 as the window size parameter.
gluon-neighbour-info
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A programm called `gluon-neighbour-info` has been developed to retrieve
information from neighbours.
The programm `gluon-neighbour-info` can be used to retrieve
information from other nodes.
::
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-p 1001 -d ff02:0:0:0:0:0:2:1001 \
-r nodeinfo
On optional timeout may be specified, e.g. `-t 5` (default: 3 seconds).
An optional timeout may be specified, e.g. `-t 5` (default: 3 seconds). See
the usage information printed by ``gluon-neighbour-info -h`` for more information
about the supported arguments.
Adding a fact
-------------
Adding a data provider
----------------------
To add a fact just add a file to either ``/lib/gluon/announce/nodeinfo.d/`` or
``/lib/gluon/announce/statistics.d/``.
The file must contain a lua script and its name will become the key for the
resulting JSON object. A simple script adding a ``hostname`` field might look
like this:
::
return uci:get_first('system', 'system', 'hostname')
The directory structure will be converted to a JSON object, i.e. you may
create subdirectories. So, if the directories look like this
::
.
├── hardware
│   └── model
├── hostname
├── network
│   └── mac
├── node_id
└── software
└── firmware
the resulting JSON would become:
::
# /lib/gluon/announce/announce.lua nodeinfo
{
"hardware" : {
"model" : "TP-Link TL-MR3420 v1"
},
"hostname" : "mr3420-test",
"network" : {
"mac" : "90:f6:52:82:06:02"
},
"node_id" : "90f652820602",
"software" : {
"firmware" : {
"base" : "gluon-v2014.2-32-ge831099",
"release" : "0.4.1+0-exp20140720"
}
}
}
To add a provider, you need to install a shared object into ``/lib/gluon/respondd``.
For more information, refer to the `respondd README <https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/packages/blob/master/net/respondd/README.md>`_
and have a look the existing providers.

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features/wlan-configuration
features/private-wlan
features/wired-mesh
features/announce
features/monitoring
features/authorized-keys
features/roles