ip-mon

OpenSource IP monitoring and RPM(Real-Time Performance Monitoring) project written in python with many features

About:

This project provides the feature to monitor remote IP host and logs to filenamed rpm.log

It is currently created for linux machine and require superuser permission to run.

Current Version

23122018 : ipmon.v1.0.py

Requirement:

• pyhton3 installed
• Require sudo rights as the file is written in /var/log/ folder, but code can be editted to write to local home folder to avoid super user access

Current Features:

23122018:

• Only log when the connection fails/passes to avoid un-necessary storage issue.
• Accept user input as IPv4 to probe, delay between ping(sec), threshold value to pass/fail a connection.
• Logging can be enabled to a specific timestamp(accordance to local time), can be left blank for infinite monitoring -Watch the Youtube demo how to use, Check the "External Resources:" section
• Logs ping and mtr report to rpm.log when the connection fails

Upcoming Features:

23122018:

• Route failover in case of Multiple ISP deployment
• Multiple host monitoring
• IPv6 Capability
• Continous logging
• File size limitation when continuous logging enabled
• Email Notification on connection status change
• Collection of Local Interface, IP Stack, CPU, Memory Stats under troubleshooting logs
• Create different file while collecting troubleshooting logs
• Collect predictable logs when the network degrades

Pending Task:

23122018:

• Rigorous tesing on all param to evaluate exceptions
• Need to log if the program is stopped due to kernel sigterm messages
• Adding help menu to the program
• User Input Validation
• Calling different python program only for tshoot log collection

External Resources:

Youtube Demo Link : https://youtu.be/gKOd4sx8dCc

Notes:

I have started learning python recently and believe in learning with realtime problem solving. I created this project to use it on my home Rasberry-Pi

Please suggest

• Any other feature which can be included, taken that I will improve the core project i.e. IP monitoring and RPM(Real-Time Performance Monitoring)
• Any kind of testing which I can perform

Credits:

goos3bumps

Contacts:

networkingbaseline@gmail.com

Other thoughts:

Let me know if you want me to create any other kind of python script useful to daily network automation