Computer Monitoring¶
Program | Usefulness | Description |
---|---|---|
iftop | great | Monitor inbound and outbound IP traffic of the host computer |
netstat | good | Monitor incoming/outgoing network packets, netstat -a |
lsof | low | List of open files (e.g., disk files, network sockets, pipes, devices, and processes) and processes |
htop | great | Like top but much more user friendly |
iptraf | good | Network monitoring |
btscanner | low | Bluetooth scanner |
darkstat | great | Network traffic analyzer with web interface, darkstat -i en0 -p 8080 , point browser to localhost:8080 to see results |
nmap | good | Network mapper |
p0f | low | Passive OS finger printing tool |
wireshark | great | Network traffic analyzer |
Other useful tools for your network.
Tools¶
Install:
sudo apt-get nmap
sudo apt-get install tshark libcap-dev snmp-mibs-downloader
pip install scapy pcapy