Topic: Map location of servers.

[ajkeane]

Hi All

We would like to start mapping the locations of server installs so that we can show this on the website. If you would like to participate and have your server shown on the map please reply to this post with the town and country where the server is.

Thanks

Tony

[stephdl]

funny

town : Rodez
country :  France

[warren]

3x Cape Town, South Afrcia
1x Johannesburg, South Africa

[idp_qbn]

ajkeane,

3 x Sydney, NSW, Australia
2 x Canberra, ACT, Australia

Cheers
Ian

[ajkeane]

Thanks.

This is what I have been working on.

http://koozali.keane.co.nz/map.php

Cheers

Tony

[engdev]

4 x Rugby, UK

[TerryF]

2 x Upwey, Victoria, Australia
2 x Belgrave South, Victoria, Australia

All prod servers - SME8

1 x ESXi Dev Box - Multi SME 7 to 9, also Upwey

[crazybob]

4 x Grandville Michigan SME8
1 x Marne Michigan SME8
1 X Cutlerville Michigan SME8
2 X Wyoming Michigan SME8
5 x Grand Rapids Michigan SME8
1 x Hudsonville Michigan SME8
1 x Byron Center Michigan SME7.6

[mab974]

2 x St Paul Reunion SME8
1 x Dusseldorf Germany SME8

Michel

[hawk]

10 x pietermaritzburg south africa sme8 (+/- 500 users)
1 x johnannesburg south africa sme8
2 x pietermaritzburg south africa development 1 sme9 & 1 sme8

contribs installed on all
web filtering
sarg reporting
vacation
email wbl
dhcp manager
system monitor

All servers fully up to date
Hardware changed every 2 years
All servers intel i3 2 or 4 gb ram, 500gb - 2tb drives

[cno]

9 x Roskilde, Denmark SME8

[pcdoc]

15 X Townsville, Queensland, Aus (1 SME9 DEV, 11 SM8, 3 SME7)
2 X Rockhampton, Queensland Aus (SME8)
2 X Ingham, Queensland, Aus (SME7)
1 X Ayre, Queensland, Aus (SME8)

[smeghead]

Between myself & a couple of associates we have around 45 servers in Perth, Western Australia, that we have installed and/or maintain. I myself have around 20.  These are a mix of SME7.x & 8.x

This map could be used to show the consultant details via linking to the published consultant page(s); consultants would pay to be on this page & this could be a subscription type thing to help generate a bit more revenue for the distro .. the pin on the map could show the number of servers the consultant has under their wing.

Further, when an SME is built it could register with a Koozali server using the consultant ID so maintaining this is automated.  Server would call home once a month, if it doesn't call home the count is decremented.

[ajkeane]

Smeghead

All great suggestions and something we will work on doing. At the moment I have only been gathering the town, country and number of installs for each user.

I am happy to start collating other information and to look at including that in the pop ups if people want to supply it to me.

Thanks

tony

[brianr]

2 x Skelmersdale, NW UK
1 x Colne, UK
2 x Bolton, UK
1 x Scunthorpe, NE, UK

[slicknic]

Bristol, UK

[Charles2008]

Peterborough, UK, SME8

[brianr]

oh - and associate has 5 more in the NW UK.

[Jáder]

Servers at Brasil:
(qty, city , state)
1, Campo Bom, RS
2, Canoas, RS
7, Porto Alegre, RS
1, Rio Grande, RS
1, João Pessoa , PB

EDIT: add my own server @ João Pessoa

[egareg]

Only one in Démouville, France.

[heuzef]

Team : firewall-services.com
Country : France
City : Bordeaux

Thirty server around France.

[janet]

ajkeane

I suggest getting smolt (or similar) functioning again to collect counts of each server installed.

[stephdl]

smolt is a dead project and no longer workable for centos6, indeed it will nice to have something like that.
This should be a bug raised

[JohnG]

Is there a central log somewhere when there's software or clamav updates? If so can a map be generated from that?

[stephdl]

smolt is a dead project and no longer workable for centos6, indeed it will nice to have something like that.
This should be a bug raised

census is the next fedora project but there is not too much documentation on it.

[jpnelson40]

Pittsburgh, PA

[rod]

Town: Lismore
State: NSW
Country: Australia
SME 8.1

[dustyp]

I x private (family) server    Steyning, West Sussex, UK,  SME 8.1 will show on logs as being the location of my ISP, Huntingdon, UK

[stephdl]

Shad has made an interactive map

Here is a map of locations that have at least 10 installs.  An install is counted if it was around for at least 1 month.

http://batchgeo.com/map/e875e05b857ef93f1ad61ea1e3324fc2

[Stefano]

Shad has made an interactive map

interesting.. I would like to know how he has made it.. I can't see my servers

[crazybob]

Same here, I have 9 in my area, and it only shows 4.

[guest22]

HF

12 x Amsterdam, NL - SME8.0

[JohnG]

interesting.. I would like to know how he has made it.. I can't see my servers

I like it, very impressive, and should be a great selling tool. Can't see mine either but understating the count makes it all the more impressive.

[stephdl]

see the discussion info. Shad has not given more details yet, but i think that every SME Server Ping the Contribs cluster every month.
Probably the external ip is used to make the map and it seems that you need almost 10 SME to get a flag on the Map.

So if you have several SME on the same external ip, maybe it could explain why you can't see your servers.

[guest22]

see the discussion info. Shad has not given more details yet, but i think that every SME Server Ping the Contribs cluster every month.
Probably the external ip is used to make the map and it seems that you need almost 10 SME to get a flag on the Map.

So if you have several SME on the same external ip, maybe it could explain why you can't see your servers.

config show smolt
cat /etc/smolt/config.py

[stephdl]

well i'm not really convinced, you are probably right but i believe that smolt is no longer active at contribs. Only shad can answer.

[guest22]

well i'm not really convinced, you are probably right but i believe that smolt is no longer active at contribs. Only shad can answer.

I believe contribs.org have their own smolt server and are actively collecting data. Please Internet test at the console terminal app

[mmccarn]

I think the smolt server stopped working a couple years ago.  At least, when I run the smolt checkin manually I get an error, and

Code: [Select]

/usr/bin/smoltSendProfile -c
Error contacting Server: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable
Could not send - Exiting

The contribs smolt server stopped working in 2011, as far as I can tell: Bug 6639.

[jameswilson]

I have
5 in Halesowen uk
2 in Bromyard uk
1 in Dudley uk
1 in telford uk
3 in malvern uk
2 in brighton uk

[janet]

jameswilson & all

I believe ajkeane announced in the mailing lists that he would not pursue the collection of this data, as Shad had provided a map with much more data on it
http://batchgeo.com/map/e875e05b857ef93f1ad61ea1e3324fc2

AFAICT Shad is not getting data from smolt, but is getting it from the initial console test to contribs.org (upon first set up or later retesting) & possibly also during subsequent yum update events.

[yvankerenoc]

Hello, very good idea, I did not know how to appear on the map

server: 2x SME8
Country: France
Town: Marcq en Baroeul (North of France close to Lille)
zipcode: 59700

server: 1xSME8
Country France
Town: Valenciennes (North of France 60 km far from Lille on it's south-east)
zipcode: 59300

[maaraujo]

1 x SME8

City: Mexico City
Country: Mexico

Regards.

[psdata]

3 in Amsterdam version 8.1
1 in amsterdam version 9.0

Regards

John

[nicolatiana]

Italy

2 in Milano 8.1
2 in Faule (Cn) 8.1
2 in Ciriè (To) 8.1
2 in Rivoli (To) 8.1
1 in Venaria (To)
8 in Torino 8.1
1 in Torino 7.6
1 in Torino 9 RC1

Nicola

[DanB35]

1x Hartsville, South Carolina USA SME8

[Paperguides]

4 X Wokingham. UK
1 X Tilehurst UK
1 X Finchampstead UK
3 X Reading, UK
1 X Hook, UK

All running SME8

Tony

[kmccarn]

Though I have had many over the years - These 2 are all I have now.

Falls Church, VA, USA
Martinsburg, WV, USA

[MSmith]

All Louisiana, USA
1X Opelousas
8x Lafayette

[guest22]

Hi,

please perform an internet connection test from the console and the server will phone home with it's location and version number.

See http://batchgeo.com/map/e875e05b857ef93f1ad61ea1e3324fc2

This map will periodically updated.

also mentioned on the homepage of contribs.org

TIA

guest

[0Ad^]

@RequestedDeletion, Hi there if i had my server connected by proxy server on the country, does mine appear on the said proxy server on that country? example UK? TIA

[dazza101]

1 ayr north queensland australia.
And hello from a newbie to the forums, first post not much i can contribute unfortunately,i'm here for some help please don't reply here i'll start a new thread.

[janet]

To a Forum Moderator

Would a moderator or forum admin please lock this thread.
The posting of server locations here is of no practical use, as the information is not being gathered or collated, based on earlier comments in this thread.