Nagios Wireless Network Managment Tool

A very Powerful Network Management tool, or application with addable extensions or plugins

 

    
A very powerful, host, service, application for network monitoring, an enterprise host and enterprise solution for fast, flexible, and stable platform of network management and monitoring. Nagios monitor services, hosts and network traffic notify you in real time when issues started within your network. Notifications via e-mail, SMS for selected persons or groups.
Runs on Linux or BSD with a Web GUI (Graphic User Interface) and displays status of system very early as the problems raised.
By Running small scripts you can monitor any network query or traffic, these scripts check results with expected responses. These Nagios extensions or plugins can figure out problems at a very high expert level and as for as for a very simple problems like Ping stats of all time response times. Nagios inform you for faulty network conditions as a real time informer. Alerts for Atmosphere Temperature, Bandwidth Usage, CPU Temperature, Ping Delays or Breaks and many other sort of Alerts within a minute of problem started.
You can read here :

10 Easy Steps to Configure Nagios for Wireless Network Managment

Testing Your Network’s Security Parameters Using Security Tools.

Some details about what kind of data you need to collect and analyze for security audit and better understanding of network traffic flow.

You need to check these parameters.

• Internet Connection for bandwidth, It is delivered as your internet connection explained by ISP, or less speed is available to you.
• How many users have access to your network.
• Captive Portal Functionality if you are offering volume based packages to your customers or network users.
• How many services and what level of service are offered.
• Health of your Wireless Network for mails, virus, heavy broadcasting, routing loops, denial of service attacks, and others possible threats.
• Users who are using most of your network’s bandwidth.
• Configurations and path of installed network applications like Proxy Servers, Firewalls, Cache and others.
• Your maximum throughput of wireless packets per second.
• Frequent disassociation of connections.
• Encryption and its configuration files or settings.
• Access logs of your wireless router and other network devices, to see if any other IP or User enter in your Devices to manipulate configurations.
• Run “nmap” to collect information if any of your network device or users system have open ports for hacks. And alert your users and fix problems within your network. best practice is to scan for whole IPs of Network from *.*.*.0 to *.*.*.255 for live hosts then scan those hosts for open ports.

This is not a complete list there are many other things you may be need to care for a better and tighter security of your internet wireless network.

EtherPEG

EtherPEG a free program work on Macintosh capturing all network traffic to find the JPEGs and GIFs then make a nice gallery style College of those graphics for your view.

EtherPEG capture unencrypted network traffic within local area network or wifi network, log all traffic in groups of TCP Connections ( Source IP Address, Destination IP Address, Source TCP Port and Destination TCP Port). Then engage those packets with TCP Sequence number and scan results for byte sequences to find the JPEG or GIF Data headers.

EtherPEG is a free program for the Macintosh that shows you all the JPEGs (and GIFs) going by on your network. EtherPEG works with any TCP/IP network, including Ethernet networks and wireless networks like AirPort, as long as the data is not encrypted. If the data is encrypted using IPSEC, or Virtual Private Network (VPN) products like PGPNet, or Web Browser SSL encryption, then third-parties cannot view your data.

Note: EtherPEG is free and noncommercial product. It is was a quick programming hack for MacHack. As such, it is published here for programmers to play with.

EtherPEG for OS X is now available.