Network Monitoring Device

This device was created for World Vision starting in 2006 with revisions in 2007. Specifications by Stephe Dean and Greg Campbell (from World Vision) and coding by Mark Summer, Jeff Wishnie and James Wiggins.

Hardware
The hardware is a WRAP1e103 running Pyramid Linux by Metrix Communication.

Software
Software is based on Argus.

Argus is a Real Time Flow Monitor that is designed to perform comprehensive IP network traffic auditing.

ARGUS stands for Audit Record Generation and Usage System.

Supporting software:
 * Google maps
 * Apache webserver
 * Postgres
 * PHP
 * MRTG

LDAP Authentication
LDAP Authentication is achieved using a perl script.

Known bugs
The importation process regularly throws errors. The source of the error can be identified using the MAC address, which is shown in the import report that can be emailed to an administrator.

Examples of these errors are:
 * ERROR Crufty data spanning times

Future developments

 * Automatic emailing of reports in a PDF format to administrators.