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anshuman852/dasan-router-cli

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2GoAudience · ops devopsComplexity · 3/5Setup · moderate

TLDR

dasan-router-cli is a fast command line tool and Prometheus exporter for managing a Dasan or Airtel H660GM-A home router instead of its slow web interface.

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    What it does
      Fast router CLI
      Replaces slow web UI
      Prometheus exporter
      Grafana dashboard
    Tech stack
      Go
      Cobra
      Docker
      Prometheus
    Use cases
      WiFi and firewall control
      Router health monitoring
      Scriptable configuration
    Audience
      Home network enthusiasts
      Ops engineers
      Router owners

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Manage WiFi, firewall, and connection settings on a Dasan or Airtel H660GM-A router from the terminal.

USE CASE 2

Run a Prometheus exporter to graph router health metrics like CPU, WAN, and PON stats in Grafana.

USE CASE 3

Script router configuration changes instead of clicking through the slow web admin page.

What is it built with?

GoCobraDockerPrometheus

How does it compare?

anshuman852/dasan-router-clianomalroil/1keyanybackup-ai/foundationcommon
Stars222
LanguageGoGoGo
Last pushed2019-05-172026-04-30
MaintenanceDormantMaintained
Setup difficultymoderatemoderatehard
Complexity3/53/54/5
Audienceops devopsops devopsdeveloper

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Only tested against one specific router model and firmware, some features may not persist on other units.

No license information is stated in the explanation, so terms of use are unclear.

In plain English

dasan-router-cli is a fast command line tool for managing a specific home internet router model, the Dasan or Airtel H660GM-A GPON router, as an alternative to its slow web based admin page. Instead of clicking through the router's browser interface, this tool talks directly to the same internal data endpoints that the router's own web frontend uses, letting you check status and change settings much faster from a terminal. The tool covers a wide range of router functions: viewing device information like uptime, CPU, memory, and optical signal stats, checking WAN and LAN connection status, listing connected devices, managing WiFi networks including renaming them, changing passwords, turning radios off, and setting MAC address filters, configuring firewall features like port forwarding, DMZ, parental controls, and UPnP, viewing maintenance information such as firmware version and system logs, and downloading a configuration backup. Credentials can be supplied as command flags, environment variables, or saved once so future commands work automatically without extra typing. Alongside the command line tool, the project also includes a built in Prometheus metrics exporter, which is a small background service that regularly polls the router and exposes 21 different measurements in a format monitoring tools like Grafana can graph over time. It ships as a very small Docker image and can be run alongside a ready made Grafana dashboard for visualizing the router's health. The README is candid about the tool's limitations, since much of it was built by reverse engineering the router's own web interface rather than from official documentation. Some settings, like enabling UPnP or adding MAC filter entries, appear to succeed on this particular router but do not actually save, and the tool detects and warns about this instead of falsely reporting success. Certain advanced features are also gated behind account permissions the author's test unit did not have. This project is aimed at developers and home network enthusiasts who own this specific router model and want faster, scriptable control over it than the web interface allows.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Help me build and run dasan-router-cli to check my Dasan router's status from the command line.
Prompt 2
Explain how to set up the Prometheus exporter and Grafana dashboard for my router with this tool.
Prompt 3
What router settings does this tool warn are unreliable, like UPnP or MAC filter changes?
Prompt 4
How do I save my router credentials so I don't have to pass them with every command?

Frequently asked questions

What is dasan-router-cli?

dasan-router-cli is a fast command line tool and Prometheus exporter for managing a Dasan or Airtel H660GM-A home router instead of its slow web interface.

What language is dasan-router-cli written in?

Mainly Go. The stack also includes Go, Cobra, Docker.

What license does dasan-router-cli use?

No license information is stated in the explanation, so terms of use are unclear.

How hard is dasan-router-cli to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.

Who is dasan-router-cli for?

Mainly ops devops.

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