r/Networking Ping

This project was conceived from a Reddit post asking for a tool that can ping multiple multiple host and provide traceroute for each reachability attempt.

Why not just use an existing NMS product?

1. I hope to make this easy to use and deployable within 5 minutes using docker for ADHOC use
2. I want to learn/brush up on some frontend technology
3. I want to learn/use/practice building stuf with Django
4. I worked at an Org which had something similar done in PowerShell. It very nice to have around for large changes, but it was such a pain to set up. Guys - if you see this and it was simple to use someone is paying for my first race :)
5. What else am I going to do on my weekends?

Quick Start: Development

# Clone repo
git clone urlHere

# Set up python environment
python -m venv venv
source ./venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirments.txt

# Migrate database - this will create a temp sqlite3 db
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

# Start Celery Worker
python -m celery -A r_networking_ping  worker # you may need to run this as sudo
python -m celery -A r_networking_ping  beat
python -m celery -A r_networking_ping  flower

# set environment
set -o allexport; source .env; set +o allexport

# Start Development Server
python manage.py runserver

Deployment

Enviromental File

.env

DJANGO_DEBUG=True
DJANGO_SECRET_KEY=KeKeDoYouLoveMe_NoIDont
DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS="localhost,127.0.0.1"
DJANGO_TIME_ZONE=UTC
SQL_ENGINE=django.db.backends.postgresql
SQL_DATABASE=r_networking_ping
SQL_USER=r_networking_ping
SQL_PASSWORD=HelloW0rld2023!
SQL_HOST=db
SQL_PORT=5432

.env.db

Separating out Database so we can easily decouple

POSTGRES_USER=r_networking_ping # Change if desired. Has to match SQL_USER in .env
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=ChangeMePlease # Please change! Has to match SQL_USER in .env
POSTGRES_DB=r_networking_pingn # Change if desired. Has to match SQL_USER in .env

Quick Start - Docker

Note that this will not work (will not ping) on MacOS, because Docker Desktop for Mac can't route traffic to containers

Docker Compose Up

docker-compose up --build

Docker Compose Migrate Database (First Run or change to DB Models)

docker-compose run web python3 manage.py migrate