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Analyze Protocol Buffers | Print |
Thursday, 18 September 2008

Analyze Google Protocol Buffer streams

Protocol Buffers (protobuf) is a serialization scheme recently open sourced by Google.  This article is a simple tutorial on how to analyze protobuf messages using Unsniff 1.8 Beta. You just have to drop the proto files in a specific folder. Unsniff then creates a decoder on the fly using the information in the file.

We built support for protocol buffers as a project to test the dynamic decoder framework for Unsniff 2.0. It is now in a shape that many might be of practical use to a lot of people.
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Save SNMP Traps into a MySQL database | Print |
Monday, 19 May 2008

How to store SNMP Traps into a MySQL database ?


This article explains how you can store SNMP traps as they arrive into a MySQL database using the Unbrowse SNMP Scripting Interface. We introduce a sample schema and a script which you can easily adapt to your requirements.

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Packaging SNMP MIB files | Print |
Monday, 24 September 2007

How to make your own MIB Packages

This article explains the SNMP MIB packaging feature supported by Unbrowse SNMP.  We also include full source code for our MIB packaging script. You can extend or use this program any way you wish.

Network element vendors can package all their MIBs into a single ZIP file that contains both compiled and raw MIB files. This takes the burden off the end user from locating and compiling MIBs. Unlike other MIB Browsers, we do not package a giant MIB database. This would quickly get outdated.

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Work with output from snmpwalk | Print |
Friday, 22 December 2006

Working with SNMPWALK output

Convert snmpwalk to mib browserSNMPWALK is one of the main tools used by a network engineer to troubleshoot behavior or verify configuration of devices. The output however is pretty hard to understand. In this article, we will talk about how Unbrowse SNMP makes the task of working with SNMPWALK dumps much easier. Snmpwalk is a command line utility available on almost all router platforms. A standalone version is also available for free from the excellent Net-SNMP project.
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How to effectively use a MIB Browser | Print |
Thursday, 03 August 2006

A MIB Browser Tutorial

MIB Browser Tutorial Theme Are you just beginning to learn the ropes as a network administrator ? Learn how you can effectively use a MIB Browser to retrieve and set configuration data in routers, switches, and servers.  
  • What is a MIB Browser ?
  • Working with MIB Modules and enterprise MIBs 
  • How to select and read the MIB objects that are most interesting to you ?
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Asterisk Call Analyzer for IAX2 | Print |
Tuesday, 14 February 2006

Asterisk VoIP Call Analysis Tool

An add-on tool for complete IAX2 (Asterisk Protocol) call analysis
  Click for Whitepaper "IAX2 Call Analyzer for Unsniff" (900 kb)IAX2 Call Analyzer
Are you one of the growing number of people deploying the Asterisk VoIP platform ? We present a add-on tool that performs complete VoIP Call Analysis for the Inter Asterisk Exchange (IAX2) protocol. Measure and plot call bandwidth, interarrival delay, jitter, packet loss, and IAX2 events for each direction of call. This tool like others in this series (such as TCP/IP analysis) is written in the excellent Ruby scripting language using the Fox-Ruby toolkit. Full source code of the tool is provided for you to tweak it to your liking. If you are working with Asterisk in any capacity, this is a "must  have" tool on your workbench.
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IAX2 (Asterisk) Analysis using Unsniff | Print |
Tuesday, 14 February 2006

Using Unsniff to troubleshoot IAX2 (Asterisk PBX)


Troubleshoot Asterisk using UnsniffFind out how you can use Unsniff to develop, debug, or test the IAX2 protocol (the native protocol used by the Asterisk open source PBX).  Are you getting disconnected or the wrong codec is being negotiated ? Unsniff can help you debug it. Just hover your mouse over any field for bubble help to pinpoint your problem. You can track calls, playback each direction of a conversation, or save these conversations to a WAV file. If you know a scripting language (VBScript or Ruby) you can easily whip up your own analysis scripts.
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Decrypt SNMPv3 messages | Print |
Tuesday, 06 December 2005

Analyzing encrypted SNMPv3

Decrypt SNMPv3 DES AES-128Unsniff provides excellent support for SNMPv3 analysis such as deep decodes, full bubble help, scriptability, and OID resolution. However SNMPv3 in privacy mode will stump Unsniff because of its encrypted payload. This article explains how you can continue to analyze SNMPv3 using the decryption features provided by Unsniff. By providing Unsniff with the privacy key information, you can automatically decrypt SNMPv3 PDUs which use the CBC-DES and CFB-AES-128 symmetric encyption algorithms.
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Analyzing SSL/TLS | Print |
Thursday, 13 October 2005

Using Unsniff to analyze SSL and TLS streams

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Analyzing and Decrypting SSL/TLS
A number of applications today use SSL and TLS as a security layer. Unsniff allows authorized users to analyze these applications by decrypting the SSL/TLS streams in real time. This is done without interrupting the SSL streams in any way. Unsniff can also strip out the SSL/TLS layer completely and analyze the application protocols as if the security layer never existed. If you are working with a secure web server, you can analyze the HTTPS protocol, including the ability to reconstruct complete web pages.

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