![]() To do that click the plus sign on the upper right corner of WiFi Scanner and then click on “Remote WiFi Scanner.” Then configure it as shown in the following image and hit “Test Configuration.” One feature I like about WiFi scanner is that it allows you to first test that the remote capturing devices have been set up correctly. In the background, WiFi scanner runs the command on the remote agent through ssh. At the moment WiFi Scanner needs to ssh to the remote host with a password-based ssh, and to enable that you need to modify the ssh configuration file.Ħ) systemctl restart ssh: After you modify the ssh configuration file, you need to restart the demon for the change to take effect.ħ) visudo: use visudo to modify /etc/sudoers and add the following at the end of the file: #link up/down To perform any changes on the agent, you first need to remount the root partition as read-write.Ĥ) passwd netbeez: The agent is shipped with a custom password, and in order to be able to ssh to the agent with a password, you need to modify it to something other than the default one.ĥ) sed -i 's/#PasswordAuthentication yes/PasswordAuthentication yes/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config: The agents are shipped with password-based ssh disabled (you can ssh with a key and passphrase). If you don’t have your agent’s root password contact to get the credentials.Ģ) Become root with su: The following options require root access to modify options and files on the agent.ģ) mount -o remount,rw / : The root partition of the agent is mounted as read-only to extend the SD card’s life span. Keep in mind that you need root access to the agent’s CLI. Since the agents are Linux-based boxes, we also provide a GUI console on the dashboard, which you can use to perform the following steps. This is done by following “Agent setting -> Interface Management -> wlan0 -> None -> Save settings”. ![]() Otherwise, the agent’s background process might compete with WiFi Scanner and cause the agent to reboot or not work properly during scanning. Here are the steps to set the agent up for remote WiFi scanning.ġ) Disconnect the agent from any WiFi networks: During scanning, the interface needs to be dissociated from any WiFi network. This is how an agent installed at our office in Pittsburgh, PA looks like connected to our office SSID “netbeez”. latency, DNS, speedtest) is done through the dashboard. After that point, all the agent management, such as connecting it to a WiFi network or starting active monitoring tests (e.g. The NetBeez agent is shipped to our customers as a preconfigured box that just needs to be plugged into the network. However, at the moment requires some manual steps to modify our existing agent to make it compatible with WiFi Scanner’s integration. Since the NetBeez WiFi agents are based on the Raspberry Pi platform, extending the scanning capabilities of WiFi scanner to NetBeez agents is pretty much straightforward. NetBeez agents natively have the ability to scan and display the information on the NetBeez dashboard, but they don’t provide the wealth of information WiFi Scanner does.Įnabling Remote Capture on the NetBeez Agent One of the recent additions of WiFi scanner is the ability to use as a capturing device a remote host such as a Raspberry Pi or WLAN Pi. In the background, WiFi scanner captures the traffic through the wireless interface and compiles and displays the results in an intuitive way. When you fire up WiFi Scanner, it uses the WiFi interface of the host it’s running on, and provides an output of the WiFi networks it can detect through the local interface. For the purposes of this integration, you can use the free trial or buy a subscription. You can download WiFi Scanner from here, and install it on your Windows or Mac machine. It’s supported on Windows and MacOS and provides information such as available SSIDs with their signal strength, channel width, BSSID, protocol, etc. It is a WiFi discovery and scanning tool for IT professionals for detailed information about surrounding WiFi networks. AccessAgility is a technology company that offers mainly services and tools around WiFi technologies.
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