Unsniff for Network Administration
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Network
Administration
Security
Analysis
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Unsniff
can help
you troubleshoot like no other tool.
Unsniff's stream analysis combined with its powerful scripting
abilities enable you to write forensic analysis tools. The following
groups will benefit from Unsniff Network Analyzer.
- Security
Analysts
- Network Administrators
- Field Personnel
Top features for network administrators
One-stop
statistics
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Unsniff Network Analyzer comes with
powerful performance statistics
capabilities built in. You can view the current top-N conversations for
IP, Ethernet, and IPv6 hosts. You can also view the current bandwidth
used in bytes/sec and packets/sec.We designed our Statistics window as
a one-stop dashboard for the most frequently used reports.
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Roll your own
For a network administrator, the main strength of Unsniff is its
extensibility and scripting capabilities. Unsniff provides you the
tools to roll your own administration tools.
There are plenty of network / protocol analyzers but they do not
provide you with an environment to write your own tools. You have to
contact their "services department" to get them to include simple
functionality. For example : Recently we talked to a talented web
network administrator - he wanted his network analyzer to simply print
out which countries were hitting what resources on one of his websites.
So a simple report of : URL -> list of countries was all he
needed.
With Unsniff, he was able to write a simple script in Ruby to
accomplish this. As a network administrator you will frequently
encounter such situations - Unsniff enables you to break free of canned
reports and analysis. You can also mine through captured data and
perform security analysis.
Create your own
reports
For users coming from tools which have many canned reports, it may seem
that Unsniff is lacking these reports. The reality is that a majority
of those canned reports are hardly ever used and result in information
overload. Unsniff can generate many such reports easily via its
scripting interface. For example : see packet length distribution,
traffic report, and advanced TCP analysis tools.
Unleash Networks would love to hear from you about your needs in the
reporting area.
For more information about how Unsniff Network Analyzer can help with
your particular usage scenario, contact us at 
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