There's certainly no shortage of network mapping and monitoring tools. There is one lightweight package I recently discovered and finally got around to testing. LAN Orangutan (what a name) quickly ...

If you’ve never used it before, you may think Home Assistant is a platform for managing smart devices. But between the myriads of integrations, community add-ons, and the offerings on Home Assistant ...

If you’re a network administrator for a small network, you canuse all the automated tools you can round up. Keeping track ofevery device on your network and key information about each can bea daunting ...

Two weeks ago in part 2 of the indispensables series I made mention of a network scanning app called iNet Network Scanner. I’ve used this app on my Mac for years and love it, but it also comes in two ...

If you administer a small network at work or at home, you’llwelcome the free SoftPerfect Network Scanner. Its set of tools willwarm the hearts of small network administrators. Want to discoverevery ...

This month marks the 20th anniversary of Nmap, the open-source network mapping tool that became the standard used by many IT professionals, but that can be a bit much if you only need to do general ...

Over the past five years I tested quite a few iOS applications that could be used for providing quick snaps of the local network. Most of them were free applications and very often lacking either ...

Software that analyzes a network to determine its exposure to unwanted intruders. Also called a "vulnerability scanner," such products check client PCs, servers, routers, firewalls, network appliances ...

DHCP is great for getting machines on the network with a minimum of fuss. However, it can also make remote administration a pain because you never know which IP you’re supposed to be SSHing into.