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Hardware to monitor WiFi availability?

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Our site has WiFi provided by a 3rd party and we don't have access to the management interface, but would like to be able to use our extensive PRTG instance to monitor the availability of the SSIDs (i.e. answer the question "Has the wifi gone down?"). Not having management access I was thinking of devices spread throughout the site that connect to the WiFi network and report their status back to PRTG, probably over Ethernet. I'm sure this could probably be done with a Raspberry Pi or similar, but does anyone know of off-the-shelve devices specifically designed to do this?

TIA,

Andrew.

hardware-monitoring monitoring wifi

Created on Oct 27, 2020 11:11:18 AM



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Hello Andrew,

For general WiFi/bandwidth monitoring, these articles might be of interest:
- https://blog.paessler.com/everything-there-is-to-know-about-managing-your-wifi-bandwidth
- https://www.paessler.com/wifi-monitoring

You can also write custom scripts and create EXE/Script sensors. For this, these threads might be helpful:
-https://superuser.com/questions/991457/how-do-i-display-a-list-of-wi-fi-connections-using-netsh
-https://askubuntu.com/questions/567006/how-can-i-display-the-list-of-available-wifi-networks

Created on Oct 28, 2020 10:15:35 AM by Timo Dambach [Paessler Support]




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