December 2015 - RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors

Welcome and tips for new RIPE Atlas ambassadors
by Vesna Manojlovic 14 Feb '18

14 Feb '18

Dear colleagues, Thank you very much for helping us build RIPE Atlas into the largest, most diverse Internet measurement network possible by spreading the word and distributing probes. To help make it easier for our community to meet RIPE Atlas ambassadors, we’ve created a list of the different events where ambassadors will be available to answer questions and hand out probes: https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/community/#!tab-conferences Please let us know if there are any events you’ll be attending, and we will add you to the list. If you want us to list your contact details, please also tell us your Twitter, GitHub or LinkedIn information. You can send these details to mcb(a)ripe.net. We’re also happy to announce that the dashboard view of the probes you've already distributed has been improved. We hope this will help you in your tasks as a RIPE Atlas ambassador, such as following up with hosts who are a bit slow to connect their probes, or those who have maybe forgotten all about connecting them! Below you can find some more tips and resources to help you as a RIPE Atlas ambassador. We look forward to meeting you soon, either in person at an event (hopefully at RIPE 69!) or online. Kind regards, Lia, Michela, Vesna Measurements Community Building team RIPE NCC Tips: You can download and print a brochure that explains what RIPE Atlas is and how people can apply for a probe: https://www-static.ripe.net/static/rnd-ui/atlas/media/apply/RIPE_Atlas_flye… You can see where we need to distribute more probes: https://atlas.ripe.net/contrib/density.html You can see how many probes are in a certain AS Number by querying RIPEstat for the AS Number and looking at the "Activity” tab: https://stat.ripe.net You can get the latest updates about RIPE Atlas on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/atlas

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LED status for RIPE probes
by DurgaPrasad - DatasoftComnet 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

Hello all, Can someone post the LED status and its meaning of the RIPE probes? Some probes take forever to register and we keep power cycling them interrupting I don't know what. Regards Durga Prasad Datasoft Comnet Pvt. Ltd. Cisco Premier Certified Partner VMware Enterprise Partner ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Find more about us at <http://www.datasoftcomnet.com> www.datasoftcomnet.com Datasoft Comnet Pvt. Ltd. 48-12-14, Flat Nos. 103 & 104, Vanitha Residency, Janakirama Street. (Old City Cable Lane) Srinagar, Visakhapatnam Pin. 530016. Ph. 2726942, 2525225. Mobile: 9849111010. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Branches: Mumbai, Hyderabad <https://www.linkedin.com/company/datasoft-comnet-private-limited> https://www.linkedin.com/company/datasoft-comnet-private-limited

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News and Happy Holidays!
by Michela Galante 27 Dec '15

27 Dec '15

Dear RIPE Atlas ambassadors, It’s been a long time since we shared some news, and we have a lot to tell you about! ******** One million credits ******** Do you know that you have 1,000,000 RIPE Atlas credits as thanks for helping us build the largest Internet measurement network? Here are some ways you can take advantage of these credits to run your own measurements: 1) If a customer complains they can't reach your network, you can schedule a ping from 500 probes to diagnose where else in the world this problem is visible. Cost for a one-off ping measurement using 500 probes around the world: 3,000 credits. 2) If you suspect that there are reachability problems between your server and a specific network, you can perform traceroute measurements every 30 minutes from 50 probes located in a certain AS Number, or in a specified country. Daily cost: 72,000 credits. 3) Use DomainMON to monitor your own name servers: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripe-atlas-domainmon-is… For example, you could schedule a measurement of 6 name servers for ripe.net with UDP SOA every hour from 10 probes. Daily cost: 28,800 credits. View your own credits here: https://atlas.ripe.net/user/credits/ If you haven’t received the million credits yet, it means that none of your ambassador probes have been connected yet. Please chase your contacts and ask them to get their probes online! ******** 10% credits from your online ambassador probes ******** Since this is the holiday season, we believe our ambassadors deserve special recognition for their help. As an ambassador, you will now receive daily 10% of the credits that your ambassador probes generate when they are online. That means you’ll receive 2,160 credits every day for each of your ambassador probes that remain online. ******** Ambassador page improvements ******** The ambassador page has been improved. Besides being the place where you register the details of the people you gave the probes to, you can now find helpful information, including: 1) Tools for promoting RIPE Atlas 2) Communications: links to mailing list, conferences page and updates 3) How do I know where probes are needed? 4) How do I ask for more probes? https://atlas.ripe.net/ambassadors/probes/ ******** RIPE Atlas in multiple languages ******** You’ve asked us whether we can provide information about RIPE Atlas in other languages. We’ll soon have brochures available online in Spanish, Portuguese and French, with more languages coming. In the meantime, some community members have provided some information and we've collected their articles and blogs on GitHub. Take a look - and feel free to add your own: https://github.com/RIPE-Atlas-Community/multi-lingual-docs It has been a great year for RIPE Atlas and we wish to thank you for your contribution! We hope we can count on your cooperation again next year. Happy Holidays! Michela, Lia & Vesna Measurements Community Building RIPE NCC

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Re: [RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] LED status for RIPE probes
by M. Tajbakhsh 25 Dec '15

25 Dec '15

Dear Folks, Hope everybody is doing fine. Couldn't agree more on the issue of power adapters. Expecting volunteers to provide them, especially at home, is a pain in the neck at each of my giveaway sessions. Some of volunteers actually use their phone chargers or PC ports for that and I am afraid they may take it back any time for granted, and leave the probe off and forgotten forever. Also the LED's give no clues as everything has been coded from scratch on the probes. One of mine has been running for a week with the big reset button LED off, then after a power recycle, it came up and the probe doing fine as before, while some other LED is never seen on. In addition, no network activity is shown on the probe itself, and I have to keep an eye on a one-out-of-many LED on the switch to see if the life is going on with the probe. I think developers can put a little effort to make sense out of LED's and give us a manual in order to be able to troubleshoot probes. I suggest one for network, one for activity, one for connectivity to the server, one for updates, one for power-up One other demand is the poster of the Atlas. It doesn't help promotions much. More information is demanded, much like a catalog, answering more questions and highlighting more features. Gaining people's cyber trust is not easy these days. Especially when they want to participate at their own costs, "at their own risk" is not an option. Also, as we may need many copies of it to share here and there, it would be nice if some pack of hard copies is enclosed with the probes sent to us and and at least 2 sheets for each host. Last but not least, an online certification or badge or some ID with our picture on it or something alike can be of much more credit to ambassadors and helps us get around resistance. Regards, M. Tajbakhsh Network Lecturer, Advisor On Fri, 12/25/2015 08:52 AM, DurgaPrasad - DatasoftComnet <dp(a)datasoftcomnet.com> wrote: > Hello all, Can someone post the LED status and its meaning of the RIPE probes? Some probes take forever to register and we keep power cycling them interrupting I don’t know what. Regards Durga Prasad

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