Arris cable modem plugin for collectd

This plugin scrapes upstream/downstream channel information from an Arris cable modem status page.

All this was developed on a Raspberry Pi 2 running Debian (Raspbian) Jessie. So it's using dated components like beautifulsoup3 and python2.

Requirements

• collectd
• python2.7
• python-requests
• python-beautifulsoup

Install

Install collectd and python modules

sudo apt-get install collectd python-requests python-beautifulsoup

Copy python script and types.db to /etc/collectd

cp arris_modem.py /etc/collectd/
cp arris_modem_types.db /etc/collectd/

Configure

Add the following lines to your collectd.conf

TypesDB "/etc/collectd/arris_modem_types.db"

<LoadPlugin python>
    Globals true
</LoadPlugin>

<Plugin python>
    ModulePath "/etc/collectd"
    LogTraces true
    Interactive false
    Import "arris_modem"
    <Module arris_modem>
        Host "mymodem"
        Url "http://192.168.100.1"
    </Module>
</Plugin>

Then restart collectd

sudo systemctl restart collectd

Dashboard

Example Grafana dashboard