Questions tagged [network-monitoring]
Network monitoring systems check and report the status of network components, so administrators are alerted by degraded performance or outages.
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Nethogs → creating socket failed while establishing local IP - are you root?
Following update of my Kubuntu, I'm not able to monitor my network consumption using nethogs:
sudo nethogs enp1s0
creating socket failed while establishing local IP - are you root?
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How to monitor who is pinging me?
Is there a way to know who is pinging my PC on my network? Is it possible to monitor all ICMP packets? How can I do that?
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I need a good network monitoring tool
I need to get some good network monitoring tools. I am trying to find out why my office network is so congested/slow, and I need something that will allow me to look at all the machines in the ...
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List all internet connections
I'd like to know all the connections my system is making to the internet. I tried netstat but that shows a lot of connections - all of which aren't applicable I think. Can it be displayed like top ...
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Task manager a UI like with Windows 10's one
I like the UI in the Windows 10 task manager:
In particular, I like the fact that the most important four shared resources on a computer are displayed without spurious information, and the color-...
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Listing devices connected in hotspot through terminal
I connect my hotspot through ap-hotspot and I can see the notifications pop out displaying new device connected , device disconnected. (Because I want to learn about privileges for access to use or ...
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Nethogs ioctl failed while establishing local IP
When I tried to monitor my internet bandwidth with nethogs
$ sudo nethogs eth0
I got the following error:
ioctl failed while establishing local IP for selected device eth0.
You may specify the ...
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Is there a command that returns network utilization?
I need a command that I can run that returns the current utilization of wlan0.
Does such a tool exist? I would prefer something that doesn't require root privileges.
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nagios- nrpe installation error(configure: error: Cannot find ssl libraries)
i have installed nagios and i want to install nrpe. While installing NRPE, when i execute (/home/abc/nrpe/configure)
./configure
it stops after reaching the following line
...
checking for type ...
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How to stop huge consumption of internet data by Ubuntu 20.04?
For the past 5 years, I have been using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. During that time, I didn’t face any unwanted internet data consumption issues. Recently I installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I haven't installed any ...
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Tool to shutdown system when there is no network traffic
I am looking for a script or a tool which I can turn on, when needed, which shuts down my computer if there is e.g. no network traffic for say 10 minutes, or below 100kb for example.
Would be really ...
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How to monitor network bandwidth per user on Ubuntu server?
I have some shell users on a server with 300GB of monthly data transfer. How can I monitor bandwidth usage per user?
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Software to show amount of data transfer of each process
I am noticing some unusual network data transfer activity. Is there any software that can show the amount of network data transfer is process is doing.
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How can I check disk usage using ssh?
We have an ssh server on Ubuntu and we want a disk usage report using ssh of whole network.Is there any utility, command, or script available to accomplish this?
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How to increase JAVA Heap Size?
I need to increase the default java heap size to get OpenNMS Linkd service running smoothly, and fortunately I have 4/5 of my total installed memory free at any given time even when their is maximum ...
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Internet Monitoring & Control tools
I'm looking for an application for monitoring internet usage and controlling bandwidth speed and quotas for each user/MAC in a centralized server for a small LAN network (less than 100 PCs).
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How to detect/monitor the hosts/urls being accessed?
Does anyone know about software that can detect or monitor host / url are being accessed by ubuntu? I want to see what host/url are beeing accessed by installed software or by my internet browser.
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How to track traffic on my server in real time?
I was wondering if I deploy a server at home, with apache2. I would like to know how much traffic is currently on my site, in real time.
Please and thank you.
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How do I install Cacti?
I'd like to use Cacti, but I'm not entirely sure how to install it.
I have a 10.04 Server that I'm installing this on.
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Utility/Sniffer to track internet traffic/speed of all PCs in local network
It doesn't matter if utility is for Ubuntu or for Windows XP/7, just need to see what pc is using the most traffic in local network.
Probably some spammer etc on that pc.
Need to get rid of that, ...
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How to install Intrusion Detection system in Ubuntu 12.04
Basically i m looking for some Intrusion Detection system....
so i find snort is one of them , soi i need step by step configuration to install snort & some snort web-based monitoring tool
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Copy all bridge traffic to a specific interface
I have a bridge/switch set up an a machine that has multiple ports. Occasionally, I have a vm running through virtualbox, and I'll have it use a virtual adapter and then I add the adapter to the ...
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Is there a GUI for nethogs or similar network-monitoring app?
I have this terminal window opened with nethogs running to see what application is using the bandwidth but it would be so much nicer in the bar next to the clock or even in a GUI. Does anything like ...
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Start nagios web interface on a different port
I am trying to install nagios but I would like to start the web interface on a port other than 80. I cant seem to find much info on how to do that. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
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Why doesn't System Monitor show activity over ethernet connections?
In the Network history graph of System Monitor, network activity over Wi-Fi shows up fine, but activity over wired ethernet doesn't show up at all. Using lspci, my ethernet adapter shows up as ...
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Internet Connectivity Indicator on Unity
How can I check whether my internet connection is active on Ubuntu. If I am connected to a wired or wi-fi network, the indicator applet shows that I'm connected. But there is now way to find out the ...
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Is there a Linux utility for monitoring hosts with GUI? [closed]
I need a program for Linux desktop to monitor hosts with GUI. Like PingInfoView for Windows. Or 10-Strike Network Monitor.
What would you recommend?
Please, before you answer view functionality ...
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NTOP web interface?
NTOP is a network monitor.
It has a web interface for viewing statistics.
I installed it via sudo apt-get install ntop on Ubuntu 2012.04, the daemon got started at the end of the install, without me ...
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Monitoring of Network
We have around 300 machines. How can we monitor the network using an Ubuntu machine so that we can find out which node is broadcasting, traffic monitoring, also trying ntop.
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Recommendations for a network monitoring data counter?
Is there a graphical data counter for Ubuntu that records how much uploaded/downloaded data was used and bandwidth being used and total amounts, filtering it by application?
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Neat and fast way to count devices in home network [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find unused IP Address on a network?
currently I am using nmap wich scans the range of IPs that my DHCP server assigns to hosts. However this is a) slow and b) ...
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Find out whether network connection is full or half duplex
How do I find out whether a network connection is full or half duplex?
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System monitor network speed monitor not working for LAN but works for my Wi-fi
I'm on Ubuntu 13.10. I generally use wi-fi to connect to the internet. But Yesterday my wi-fi router occurred some problem and now it's out for warranty. So temporarily I'm using LAN. System monitor ...
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Warn when new WiFi devices on LAN network
I connect through Ethernet. But almost all other devices use WiFi. Is it possible to get a list of devices connected to my router in Ubuntu 22.04? It would be great if there is some method to get an ...
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Network Usage Monitor
Is there any working app to monitor Daily, Weekly , Monthly data usage via wifi/Ethernet. I do have limited data usage plans.
System monitor is not of my taste, it just tell me data usage of current ...
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How to check network usage over past X minutes
I have a media PC (that is also a web test server on the LAN) that I want to reboot every so often as long as it is not in use. I have tests in place for the server using kodi, myth etc (its the ...
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How do I make Ubuntu system invisible to other systems on wireless network?
How can I hide my computer's presence from other system(s) on the same wireless network? Windows allows you to switch off network discovery (though I'm not sure if it affects the visibility on other ...
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NTM - Network Traffic Monitor GUI
I installed NTM and I have a few queries:
I tried to launch it both from cl or using the icon but I do not know if it is running !
Whenever I tried to launch it from terminal I am getting "Vector ...
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Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04) :
I have setup a monitoring interface using:
sudo airmon-ng start wlan0 channel 11
sudo iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: CC:B2:...
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Nagios Notification via Ubuntu notify-osd
I have been looking around for a nagios plugin that offers the ability to have alerts for my hosts and services that i monitor to come through to my ubuntu pc in the form of an onscreen notification.
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What tools are availble to check network performance for VoIP calls?
I need a software tool which can emulate network impairments/jitters in the network and test VoIP calls behavior and quality.
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Promiscuous mode network traffic stat util?
I want to get a stat of packets/bytes from/to each IP in the network.
Wireshark is too heavy for me, and tcpdump has no stat function.
vnstat seems not aware of IP address at all.
Any choice?
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How to easily get all HTTPS addresses that an application connects to externally?
For those who have a firewall with highly restrictive outputs, they only need to release supposedly reliable addresses for each application, so I was wondering if there is any software or command line ...
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Find out what network data is being sent/ recieved
I have recently had a data cap put on my mobile wifi subscription, in order to make sure I am paying for what I use and not more I am trying to track my usage. Having looked around the best way I have ...
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Ping monitoring program
I'm looking for a tool that I can use to monitor my ping time to a gaming server in real time. I've been getting lag spikes and want to watch where they are happening, how often, etc. I'm very new to ...
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Since this morning the network is unreachable Ubuntu 18:04
This morning the networking in my Ubuntu 18.04 Server Edition is not working anymore :
marco@pc01:$ sudo lshw -class network
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
product: ...
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Conky network section doesn't report IP or activity
I recently got a refurbished Thinkpad T430s and installed Ubuntu Mate 16.04.3 LTS. One of my customizations was to install conky and download a .conkyrc that gives me a running performance monitor -- ...
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Get network usage from specific date on terminal
On vnstat I can get the month, day, hour or top 10 days network usage. Is there anyway that I can get the network usage from specific date on the terminal? by vnstat or another tool?
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I want to ...
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How to track Firefox's Internet Usage for each tab?
My firefox is hogging up way too much of my bandwidth but I can't seem to figure out what is consuming all that data. I have only 2-3 active tabs, the rest 50 tabs from previous reboot are on sleep.
I ...
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Is there a Spiceworks replacement or similar for Ubuntu?
I am looking for something like Spiceworks, but for Ubuntu. If you are not sure what Spiceworks is, it is a piece of software that runs on a computer and tells you what kinds of devices are on your ...
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