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The WAS mainly consists of two software components: (1) the WiFiMon Agent and (2) the WiFiMon GUI.

(1) WiFiMon Agent

The WiFiMon Agent is responsible for performing the following actions: 

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WiFiMon Agent operates over HTTPS, i.e. measurements are streamed over HTTPS.

(2) WiFiMon GUI

The WiFiMon GUI provides a graphical representation of the measurement results and various analyses as described above.

WAS Installation and Configuration Guide

WiFiMon can be installed using an Ansible Playbook that is available from here along with details on how to configure WiFiMon parameters. The following section provides information on how to set configuration parameters in templates/secure-processor.properties.j2 and templates/ui.properties.j2

Be aware to use the following values in the variables configuration file of Ansible Playbook: (1) ELK stack version 7.17, (2) PostgreSQL version 14 and (3) WiFiMon agent version 1.5.1. The WiFiMon deb package is available from http://83.97.95.167/deb/wifimon-agent-1.5.1.deb.

1. WiFiMon Properties 

In secure-processor.properties.j2 template file, the WiFiMon Administrator may select whether to use or not a JSON exporter. This exports measurements of hardware probes towards a JSON collector. It is designed for the eduroam JSON collector, but it could be adapted to the needs of the WiFiMon user. If you want to disable this process, property "json.collect" should be set to "false", otherwise to "true". The URL of the JSON collector should be specified at the property "json.collector".

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Finally, WiFiMon can be started by using the start.sh script within /usr/lib/wifimon:

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3. The WiFiMon GUI

Details on accessing the WiFiMon GUI are available from here.

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