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Homelab network mapper / monitor (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by larryl9797@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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Peeps, I am looking for a graphical network mapper that will tell me some vitals on some of my devices and network. ( docker image preferred, but can do whatever)

Looking for:

DNS / DHCP performance... are there some home devices that are not getting timely resolution to DNS /DHCP handouts.

Are there some clients (Wired / Wireless) that are chatty for no real reason.

I have a combo virtual / container client as well as my usual home bound devices. (TVs / Phones)

Thinking that I may need to VLAN or segment my network to split out traffic a little bit.. thinking I'm swamping my home LAN with Homelab devices and a mapping / utilization tool would be great!

Thanks for any help!

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[–] kaiwulf@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Paessler PRTG is among my favorites outside of LogicMonitor, and has a freeware version https://www.paessler.com/howto-free-network-monitoring

I'd also look into Nagios Core, Prometheus, Zabbix, and Zenoss - All capable monitoring solutions, just dig into to see what it can do and if the feature set and layout works for you

[–] Alex-LVL@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Checkmk. If Windows/Linux(most flavors)/MacOS, you can install a small agent that gathers all kinds of data, that you can extend with all sorts of plug-ins (even create your own in Python, easy). Very flexible, and good tutorials/videos/docs on their site. The RAW edition is more than enough.