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Describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator (via email, SMS or other alarms) in case of outages.

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Network usage monitor for linux for specific hours?

I need a network usage monitor for linux like vnStat that have the ability to turn off metering at specific hours. I have a broadband connection with limited and unlimited bandwidth respect to time. ...
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Wireshark/Tshark. Very little (data) packets in monitor mode

I'm trying to setup a proof of concept for indoor positioning using WIFI. The idea is to place a few WIFI adapters in several locations in a small building, each tracking signal strength and MAC ...
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Can Monitor mode and internet connection work together?

Im using raspberry Pi 3 with linux Kali installed , trying to capture all the packets in my WLAN network. Now,to do that I need to get in monitor mode, since the R.PI3 built in chip has no monitor ...
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Network traffic (data usage) monitor for Windows 10

I want to see and analyze which processes (and and if possible, browser tabs) has used what amount of traffic. I am on Windows 10 and have the Network Meter gadget installed (relic of Windows 7), and ...
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Windows Command line way to get network usage of a process

I would like to get the network usage (in bytes or KB) of a specified process through the Windows command line (I'm using Windows 7). Also if its possible to get a list of all running processes with ...
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Network traffic monitoring using RaspberryPi

The ISP in my country limit the internet with monthly quota 100GB 200GB and so on, so i must be careful of consuming all of it before the month ends so i decided to watch my home network traffic using ...
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How can I monitor/record network stability in the background?

I work in a building where the network connection regularly has issues, but the people responsible for the LAN refuse to acknowledge there is a problem, "because nobody else has complained, so it must ...
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How to monitor on which channel my WiFi operates while scanning for access points?

I would like to see precisely at which time my Wifi module is sending/receiving on which Wifi channel, when in infrastructure mode as station. To be specific my main interest is what happens during ...
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Simulate static ips in a private netwrok

This is the context: We are trying to monitor via SNMP a set of devices. Unfortunately, all our solutions monitor by IP, and this set of devices change ips regularly (doesn't matter why, think of it ...
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How to turn Linksys-WRT54GL v1.1 to monitor mode?

First I am using Linksys-WRT54GL v1.1 and OpenWRT using b43 driver. I tried many times to capture packets in monitoring mode and I did the following step create interface iw phy phy0 interface ...
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monitor and log LAN network traffic on CentOS 6.x

I've been fiddling with this one for almost a week now. My setup is: LAN (windows/linux PCs/servers) <-> CentOS gateway/firewall box <-> ISP I'm trying to setup a monitoring solution which ...
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How to detect WAN IP address changes?

I have a software that is very WAN IP Address sensitive, and I am looking for some "monitors" which can detect if WAN changed by ISP, just to react accordingly. Any good recommendation? Edit: I ...
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Unable to capture authentication handshake using airodump-ng

I am using airodump-ng to capture authentication handshake, so I ran airodump for almost 49 minutes and the output appearing as CH 9 ][ Elapsed: 49 mins ][ 2013-04-14 10:58 ][ fixed channel prism0: -...
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How to get notified when new clients are connected on my LAN?

Is there any solution which can allow me to store MAC's and IP's of my clients and notify me via email whenever a new one is connected? (Preferably for Windows) I know I can script it myself but ...
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iw not allowing me to create interface (invalid exchange -52)

Kali linux on a Raspberry Pi 4B, adding a monitor interface using iw phy phy0 interface add mon0 type monitor gives command failed: invalid exchange (-52). iw list: Wiphy phy0 wiphy index: 0 ...
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Zabbix 6 agent: failed to initialize builtin counter

I am doing a zabbix 6 installation and configuration of a Windows machine, after installing and configuring the zabbix agent, everything seems to work fine. But after a few hours everything fails and ...
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Possible to monitor LAN traffic (who is visiting what urls and for how long)

I am attempting to limit my children's internet/video viewing am aware of some paid options but for starters I am try to get an idea of what they are watching and for how long (I have my own biased ...
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How to minimize upload/download amount for a reverse SSH tunnel on a Raspberry Pi with Cellular Hat?

I have a Raspberry Pi with a Sixfab Cellular Hat that is behind a CG-NAT. I have set up a reverse SSH tunnel between my server and Raspberry Pi, but I noticed that the upload and download amounts sum ...
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How do I list OID Names along with their associated OnNotificationAction Triggers with PRTGAPI using Powershell?

So I'm trying to pull a list of Group Names with their corresponding notification triggers using PRTGAPI, Get-Sensor | Get-Trigger gives me ObjectId & OnNotificationAction but I am struggling to ...
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Unable to switch to channels 12 and 13 using terminal "airport" utility on MacOS (in wireless-monitoring mode)

There is a terminal airport utility in MacOS that can be used for wireless diagnostics. Detailed here: http://osxdaily.com/2007/01/18/airport-the-little-known-command-line-wireless-utility/ It can be ...
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Zabbix not plotting values from a simple text file on another host using Zabbix agent

I have Zabbix server installed in a Ubuntu virtual machine (hyper-visor is VMware Workstation Pro 15). My goal is to monitor a text file containing floating point numbers (the numbers are written in a ...
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Monitoring my personal web traffic behind NTLM-authenticated proxy

At my office, I'm regularly using more than the recommended bandwidth per month. This isn't a big deal since it's a soft cap, but I do get monthly emails asking me to justify my usage. As I understand ...
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Is my wireless adapter supported for monitoring?

Ive recently bought a https://www.amazon.co.uk/AC1200Mbps-Wireless-Antennas-802-11ac-MacOS10-5-14/dp/B07PQJYLDH/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=high+gain+dual+antenna&qid=1562166711&s=gateway&sr=8-1 ...
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Sniffing communications not working

I am looking for a VirtualBox guru. I tried several settings without success and I don't know what should I try further. I have three virtual machines: Two Windows 7 machines (master-slave ...
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home network wifi packet monitoring solution

My goal is to be able to capture all packets on my home network. Every packet generated by a local machine or received from the Internet. (No, I'm not trying to spy on anyone. This is my home network ...
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Possible proxy virus monitoring traffic - how to determine cause of proxy and intent of proxy?

Last night I noticed I can't connect to the internet. I checked my Arch Linux installation, and it was fine. Indeed, my Android phone was fine too. After some digging, I tried to disable '...
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Selecting between Zabbix Agent, SNMP and other available protocols in Zabbix NMS

I have started using zabbix 3.2 and currently I am monitoring 10 devices , 8 of which are Snmp based and 2 are Agent based. Currently both type of devices are showing basic data like CPU, Memory etc. ...
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Send Alert when PC is Offline

I'm simplifying/generalizing the scenario here. I am looking for a way to receive alerts if my Windows 10 desktop PC goes offline for any reason. The PC is on a private network / behind a firewall so ...
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network statistics monthly group by ip address

How can I get network statistics monthly group by ip address on my linux router. I have a linux router at home and I want to get network statistics information monthly grouped by ip address pair ...
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Devmon exception template to alarm only if ifAliasBox contains string "uplink" (for Xymon)

to monitor my network I use Xymon with Devmon SNMP crawler. Devmon is a perl program for extracting and interpreting data received from SMNP capable devices. Therefor templates are used for each ...
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Is it possible to monitor traffic and identify rogue outgoing emails from mobile devices using a PC as a wireless hotspot?

I've discovered that my home network IP address has ended up on several blacklists after spam traps received emails from this IP address. I've tested the one PC that uses this network, and it seems to ...
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Safe Capture of WAN Packets

I have an aggregating network tap between my WAN connetion and my home router. I have a dedicated machine running Wireshark to capture all WAN traffic via the network tap. This machine is running ...
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Asus router reports different bandwidth usage from ISP

The Traffic Manager - Traffic Monitor page on my router reports drastically less bandwidth data usage than our ISP. For example 2015-Nov-04 is 0.98GB according to Asus and 7.3GB according to ISP. This ...
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How to log amount of data transferred (upload / download)

What is the easiest way to keep track of much data is transferred? I'm interested in knowing the amount uploaded and downloaded over a certain time frame (i.e. the past day or week). It would be for ...
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Wireshark 1.99 monitor mode?

Relatively new to Wireshark, running 1.99.7 on a MacBook Pro (2015), OS X Yosemite 10.10.3. I have no problem with basic capture via wifi, but have been unable to figure out how to turn on monitor ...
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Testing symmetrical high-speed Internet connections

Is there a tool that I can use on a sever that will allow me to measure throughput for symmetrical circuits on a closed controled network to a select group of clients? If not how do I go about ...
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iPad and Wifi Access point on a MAC restricted network

I'm trying to help my sister get her iPad online in her university halls of residence. She has one ethernet port in her room and there is no wireless provided. I got her a wireless router (which is ...
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Performance Monitor monitoring packets received on specific port?

We're using dozens of ports to receive hundreds of UDP connections per second (each connection is one packet) from gps devices. The programs that do the listening are poorly written and don't log any ...
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Does network monitoring tools help in detecting spywares?

Is it possible for spywares/ virus not to be detected by network monitoring tool ( for eg TCPView) if they are sending information/files over internet ?
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How to capture network traffic periodically, with every capture file containing full network flows

I need to dump network flow periodically on a Linux platform, ideally using the command line interface (i.e., non-GUI tools), and I want every capture file (pcap files) to contain complete flows. How ...
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How to check if a computer in the network is down and then send a notification email?

I need to check if a computer in the network is down. If this is true, I would like to send to myself a notification email. I have Windows 7. I was trying to do it with xStarter but I could not find ...
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How can I limit the download from internet

I have a local network which use router to connect to Internet. However, I want to limit the download source from internet. How can I block some download address for user. Because some software user ...
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