Zion Phil
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Program that can monitor and report none traffic of a MAC address or HOST NAME of device.
I am looking for a program that can run on a network than can tell me (maybe email after certain amount of time) when a MAC Address of HOST NAME of a device has not passed any traffic on the network or communicated with the program for a set amount of time. Essentially being able to track when a device has been off for a certain amount of time and alert me.
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The only thing that comes to my mind is that periodical gathering information from interfaces and then compare amount of data packets that was previously transferred amount of data in or out from network interface itself (regardless of MAC address attached to it) will give result that you need (if delta is a smaller < X than alert). That data afterward could be cross referenced with table with host names (network port linked to host name). Software of that kind could have wider usage, so I guess most of network monitoring tools would be suitable (but I never used it in such manner, so I am really not sure).