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Tool: Traffic Monitor |
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Tuesday, 04 October 2005 |
Traffic Monitor
This tool is part of a
series of utilities written by Unleash Networks. These tools are meant
to
illustrate the use of the Unsniff Scripting API and to motivate you to
write your own tools.
Traffic Monitor is a tool that displays the traffic pattern seen by
Unsniff over the duration of a
capture.
 This
tool demonstrates usage of the Unsniff Scripting API, Ruby, and
Fox-Ruby.
The free Ruby charting package UnleashCharts is used to
render the graphs.
Traffic Monitor
Quick
Info
This tool
demonstrates the following concepts
Using the Unsniff Scripting API
Using the Fox-Ruby toolkit to create GUI programs
The free ruby charting library UnleashCharts
Calculating traffic in (bps)
The Unsniff Scripting API allows you to create your own network
analysis tools. Used in conjunction with Ruby and FX-Ruby - you can
create powerful tools for your everyday use. Traffic Monitor
is part of a set of tools created by Unleash Networks - to demonstrate
the power of the Unsniff Scripting API and to get you motivated to
write your own tools.
Traffic Monitor is a tool that displays the traffic pattern seen by
Unsniff over the duration of the
capture. You can view the traffic load,
periods of silence, spikes, and recurring patterns. This utility is
written in the Ruby scripting language, using the Fox-Ruby GUI toolkit,
and the free UnleashCharts charting library.
Download
How to run
- Download the tool (trafmon.rb) to a folder on your computer
- Download UnleashCharts.rb charting library
- Execute the script on a capture file
Usage:
trafmon <capture-file-name>
capture-file-name :
Capture file in
Unsniff (*.usnf)
format
Example:
c:\RubyTest>
trafmon LargeCapture.usnf
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