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In the Activity Monitor app on your Mac, click Network (or use the Touch Bar) to see the following in the bottom of the window: Packets in, Packets out: The total number of packets received and sent. Packets in/sec, Packets out/sec: The speed of information being transferred (in packets per second). IP Traffic Monitor sits in your system tray and monitors all your network connections. You can either monitor the active connections in real-time or browse historical logs. Fing is one of the best network monitors for Android. With this app, you can see all the. Network traffic monitor free download - NetUse Traffic Monitor, SysUpTime Network Monitor, Magican Monitor, and many more programs. With the NetFlow Analyzer iOS app, you can monitor and analyze network traffic and streamline it, while on the move. Access, manage, visualize data, and keep tabs on your LAN and WAN traffic and devices from anywhere, anytime. Note: This app is compatible with NetFlow Analyzer Builds 12.4.
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Associating Internet activity with MAC addresses
Tracking web activity is nothing new. For many years IT managers have tried to get some sort of visibility at the network edge so that they can see what is happening. One of the main drivers for this is the need to keep the network secure. As Internet usage is constantly growing, malicious, phishing, scamming and fraudulent sites are also evolving.
While some firewalls and proxy servers include reporting capabilities, most are not up to the job. These systems were designed to block or control access and reporting was just added on at a later date. Server log files do not always have the answer either. They are meant to provide server administrators with data about the behaviour of the server, not what users are doing on the Internet.
Some vendors are pitching flow type (NetFlow, IPFIX, etc…) tools to address the problem. The idea is that you get flow records from the edge of your network so you can see what IP address is connecting to what. However, as with server logs, NetFlow isn’t a web usage tracker. The main reason for this is that it does not look at HTTP headers where a lot of the important information is stored.
Use the deep packet inspection engine of LANGuardian to report on network activity by MAC, IP address or Username. Real time and historical reports available.
One of the best data sources for web tracking is packet capture. You can enable packet capturing with SPANmirror ports, packet brokers, TAPs or by using promiscuous mode on virtual platforms. The trick is to pull the relevant information and discard the rest so you don’t end up storing massive packet captures.
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Relevant information includes things like MAC address, source IP, destination IP, time, website, URI and username. You only see the big picture when you have all of these variables in front of you.
Why track Internet activity?
- Root out the source of Ransomware and other security threats. Track it down to specific users, IP addresses or MAC addresses
- Maintain logs so that you can respond to third party requests. Finding the source of Bittorrent use would be a common requirement on open networks.
- Find out why your Internet connection is slow. Employees watching HD movies is a frequent cause.
- Out-of-band network forensics for troubleshooting or identifying odd network traffic.
Customer Use Case
End user is a very large airport in EMEA. Basic requirements and use case is tracking web activity, keeping a historical record of it for a period of one year, and because most of the users are just passing through (thousands of wireless users every hour!) the only way to uniquely identify each user or device is by MAC address.
Luckily for us, because the LANGuardian HTTP decoder captures and analyses wire data off a SPAN or mirror port it can easily track proxy or non-proxy traffic by IP or MAC address. The customer can also drill down to URI level when they need to investigate an incident. For them LANGuardian is an ideal solution for tracking BYOD activity as there are no modifications to the network and no agents, clients or logs required.
The MAC address variable is an important one when it comes to tracking devices on your network. Most networks use DHCP servers so you cannot rely on tracking activity based on IP addresses only. MAC addresses are unique per device so they will give you a reliable audit trail as to what is happening on your network.
Do you track web actvity on your network? If so, what data sources do you use? Comments welcome.
Darragh Delaney
Activity Monitor User Guide
View network activity in the Activity Monitor window or in the Dock.
To enable viewing in the Dock, select View > Dock Icon, then select Show Network Usage.
View network activity in the Activity Monitor window
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- In the Activity Monitor app on your Mac, click Network (or use the Touch Bar) to see the following in the bottom of the window:
- Packets in, Packets out: The total number of packets received and sent.
- Packets in/sec, Packets out/sec: The speed of information being transferred (in packets per second).
- Data received, Data sent: The total amount of information moved (in megabytes).
- Data received/sec, Data sent/sec: The amount of information moved over time (in bytes per second), also called throughput. This number is also displayed in the graph.
- To display more columns, choose View > Columns, then choose the columns you want to show.
View network activity in the Dock
- In the Activity Monitor app on your Mac, choose View > Dock Icon > Show Network Usage.
Select the type of activity displayed
In the Activity Monitor window, you can change the type of data displayed in the network activity graph. The type of data you select is shown in the Activity Monitor window and in the Activity Monitor icon in the Dock.
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- In the Activity Monitor app on your Mac, click Network (or use the Touch Bar).
- Click the pop-up menu above the graph at the bottom of the window, then choose Packets or Data.