In this post, I’ll cover using the Rpi as a network analysis tool. The hardware of the Rpi and the open source software that runs on it is an extremely cost effective method to network diagnostics and troubleshooting. The hardware layout I’ll be using is fairly simple. The Rpi 3 has built in interfaces for both wired and wireless connections. I’ll be using the wired connection as my packet sniffing port. It will not have any IP bound to it….
These instructions are based from the blogs at MyHomeBroadband.com and kugelfish.com. Install Smokeping onto the Pi The nice thing about these steps is they aren’t confined to the Raspberry Pi. You can apply this to any Linux distribution. Open a terminal session and run the following command. sudo apt-get install smokeping The downloader has Apache included, however this was setup earlier when Webmin was installed. This appears to be a factor with some settings not being changed. Once downloaded, and…
The default graphs that ship with Cacti provide a good starting point for your monitoring needs. However, you may find that the graphs don’t draw attention to what you would like. In this post, I’ll cover steps to customize your graphing functions. Also, we’ll cover ways to get more text information on your graphs, so lets begin. The default network traffic graph is reminiscent of the days of MRTG. I like to set my graph with both inbound and outbound…