LibreNMS — IFT 166 Lab 32 alternative

A minimal Docker stack for completing IFT 166 Lab 32 (Network Management) on macOS or Linux. The original lab calls for ipMonitor or PRTG, both of which are Windows-only.

The full lab walkthrough is in IFT166_Lab32.docx in this repo (your instructor may also distribute it directly). The other files in the repo are:

• compose.yml — the five-container LibreNMS stack (db, redis, librenms, dispatcher, snmpsim)
• .env.example — copy to .env before first run
• tools/build_lab32_docx.py — the script that generates the lab .docx (for maintainers; students don't need this)

Quick start

If you have git, clone:

git clone https://github.com/nprodromou/librenms.git
cd librenms
cp .env.example .env
# Edit compose.yml — replace "student" with your name in the YAML anchor at the top
docker compose up -d

If you don't, download https://github.com/nprodromou/librenms/archive/refs/heads/main.zip, double-click to extract, then cd librenms-main and run the same cp and docker compose up -d steps.

Then open http://localhost:8000 and follow the instructions in the lab .docx.