Re: [CODE4LIB] monitoring wireless networks

2012-04-14 Thread Simon Spero
If you are using a linux system, you can get the information by looking at /proc/net/wireless, or by running iwlist scan. If you're running mac os, there's a command line program for doing wirelessy things - /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport You can scan for

[CODE4LIB] monitoring wireless networks

2012-04-12 Thread Tara Robertson
Hi, Is there an automated way of monitoring (and notifying) when a wireless network goes down? I'm looking for something like Nagios, but for wireless (or can Nagios do this too?) I don't manage our network--our ITS department does. They seem to think it's adequate that I'm the monitoring

Re: [CODE4LIB] monitoring wireless networks

2012-04-12 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Apr 12, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Tara Robertson wrote: Hi, Is there an automated way of monitoring (and notifying) when a wireless network goes down? I'm looking for something like Nagios, but for wireless (or can Nagios do this too?) I don't manage our network--our ITS department does.