Home internet usage monitoring App
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Is there any good internet usage monitoring app for home user, preferably a Mac version? This is for one of my friends home, and he wants to know which device is taking up the bandwidth. I would advice him to have a custom router like dd-wrt/tomato, but he wants something simple, mac software, which he can use and get reports. Any one used such a tool?
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Not for a Mac (at least not as far as I know) but I've used BandwidthD in the past.
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Mac software won't tell you the network traffic. You need a router to collect the data first, one way or another.
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Seems like he has Sonicwall TZ 205 and some ubiquity wifi points and long distance relays (point to point) on the property to bridge long distances. I know that the App flow monitor on sonicwall could help him to get the details, but he couldn't see that option on his sonicwall. Told him to check Log>Flow Reporting>Enable Flow Reporting and Visualization (check).
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Ah, ok. What you need is something that will talk to the SonicWall. An SNMP tool most likely. I bet SolarWinds has something nice. Or ManageEngine might and they are here in the community.
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Seems like those are expensive products. Is there any free tools avaialbel which could read from the snmp logs?
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Both of them make a lot of free tools. They might have something.
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What about Cacti?
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Haven't tested cacti, and not sure on how to give the best option for him to easily configure. Checking if there are any graphical mac alternative for cacti or similar. Saw icacti but checking the options before I send him the details.
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Found a tutorial, sent to him, http://dmarr.tumblr.com/post/17613913702/monitor-your-router-with-cacti
Using Homebrew and so shouldn't be complicated
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Cool. I don't have a Mac for testing anything so....
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Hopefully will know soon!
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@ambarishrh said:
Hopefully will know soon!
I thought you must be using a MAC. Linux?Me on a Mac? Why would you think that?
I'm on Windows 8.1 most days.
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@ambarishrh try this http://peakhourapp.com
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@tobywells Thanks for the suggestion, but he had already started to setup sonicwall+SNMP+Cacti using his mac and he is almost done. Just getting the cacti report the way he wants it!
@scottalanmiller Thanks for the suggestions
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You bet!
