BitBar plugin to display combined connection information indicating:
- Corporate network status
- Internet connectivity status
- VPN status (up or down)
- Country we appear to be from - if connected via VPN may be different from your local connection.
The output is intended to be minimal, only displaying information when relevant. As such, when you have a basic working connection is when it displays the least.
Vanilla connection from HK, no issues.
HK
Vanilla connection from HK, disrupted Internet connectivity.
HK www:xx dns:ok
Connected to corporate network via VPN, appearing to be from Singapore.
.:I:.:I:. <vpn> SG
No connectivity.
Unknown connection www:xx dns:xx
BitBar lets you put the output from any script/program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar.
Project home: https://github.com/matryer/bitbar
Install BitBar following the project's own instructions.
To install the plugin:
# Go to your BitBar plugins directory and clone the project
cd /path/to/plugins/directory
git clone https://github.com/tobyoxborrow/bitbar-cisconetwork CiscoNetwork
# Ensure the script is executable
chmod +x ./CiscoNetwork/cisconetwork.sh
# Create Enabled directory if it doesn't already exist
mkdir -p Enabled
cd Enabled
# Create symlink in the Enabled directory to the script and encode the time
# (e.g. 10s = ten seconds) into the name so BitBar knows how frequently
# to execute it.
ln -s ../CiscoNetwork/cisconetwork.sh ./cisconetwork.10s.sh
Choose Refresh from the BitBar menus.