Another suggestion I just got off another list: Motorola Air Defense -- http://www.airdefense.net/ Not sure the cost, but it's bound to be cheaper than Cisco's products. :-)
Here's the full comment from the other list: Unless he wants to spend a bloody fortune for cisco's centralized management system he may want to look at AirDefense by Motorola. http://www.airdefense.net/ I've not looked at it in real depth but I attended a local presentation on it's capabilities a couple years ago. It looked nice, but I'm not sure on the price point so it may be just as expensive as Cisco. Chances are unless he has a lot of time to try and bundle a lot of little linux systems/applications together and correlating the data, he'll need a centralized management system for his APs. Especially since he doesn't want to periodically walk around looking for rogues with kismet... We use Aruba for our wireless network and rogue AP detection/mitigation is one of the base features of the system. You just put an AP in "Air Monitor" mode and have at least one on each subnet. It will correlate air traffic with wired traffic and give you the option to mitigate rogue APs. I currently do not allow for mitigation due to so many wireless networks around me.... I would hate to think that my wireless network would just outright deauth attack another neighbor without my knowledge. -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 1:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring Looks cool, I don't have a twitter or FB account. On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 09:40, John Cook <john.c...@pfsf.org> wrote: > I used this on my traveling laptop, it did a pretty good job. > http://www.makayama.com/easywifiradar.html > > John W. Cook > System Administrator > Partnership For Strong Families > 5950 NW 1st Place > Gainesville, Fl 32607 > Office (352) 244-1610 > Cell (352) 215-6944 > MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 12:31 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Wifi monitoring > > You referring to the MinGW piece? > > I was surprised at how non-trivial it was. > > Constructing the tool chain with everything required to rebuild, for example, > RRDtool or NTop is a major piece of work. > > But I have all my tools on one computer now - Windows, PowerShell, and > UNIX/Linux. > > Regards, > > Michael B. Smith > Consultant and Exchange MVP > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 12:26 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring > > Ya know, I bet you could teach a class on that last... > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 06:33, Michael B. Smith <mich...@smithcons.com> wrote: >> Trivial to run linux inside a VM on Win7. I used to do it all the time, >> until I got MinGW up and working with all my tool chain... >> >> Regards, >> >> Michael B. Smith >> Consultant and Exchange MVP >> http://TheEssentialExchange.com >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 8:40 AM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: RE: Wifi monitoring >> >> I did a quick search on Freshmeat.net and found something that might do the >> job... it's called "Wifi Scanner" and it's free. The catch is you have to be >> running linux. :-) So, get an inexpensive laptop, wipe it and install Ubuntu >> or something on it... :-) >> >> >> Here's a link to the project page: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wifiscanner >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 8:47 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Wifi monitoring >> >> All, >> >> Now that I have a Win7 Pro laptop of my very own at work, I have put >> some utilities on it to monitor my wifi environment. >> >> I've started with: >> InSSIDer >> Xirrus WifiMonitor gadget >> Ekahau Heatmapper >> >> I didn't put on PassMark's WirelessMon (it's only a 30-day eval, >> didn't want to be bothered with it.) >> >> I've also got the Android Wifi Analyzer app running on my phone. >> >> However, all of these are very limited, and are going to require lots >> of work to map my space, and to keep monitoring for rogue WAPs, etc. >> >> I'm aware of the Airtight, Cisco Clean Air, and several others, but >> I'm guessing they are way out of my price range, as their web sites >> all say "ask for a quote". >> >> Ideally, I'd like to find an app that I could use to poll my WAPs and >> use them to map my space to locate any other WAPs inside my building >> and their SSIDs - I'm thinking that triangulation via signal strength >> measurement at the various WAPs could create a useful map. >> >> For instance, I've found two SSIDs that are operating in ad hoc mode, >> and two that are operating in infrastructure mode, with relatively >> strong signals, but I simply don't have the time to walk around and do >> a survey, especially when the Ekahau free product will only do a 15 >> minute survey at a time. >> >> I've got 15 Cisco 1240AG units, so something that interoperates with >> them would be ideal. >> >> Anyone know of any relatively inexpensive (or even free) apps that >> might do this? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Kurt >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or > attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to > which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), > confidential and/or privileged material. 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