FINGSCAN install and configure

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Wed Apr 26, 2017 5:23 am
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FINGSCAN install and configure

WHAT DOES IT DO
FINGSCAN give you an overview of all your IP devices and status . It utilizes FING and other tools to scan , listen probe your network.
It will install all needed tools itself.

INSTALL

1. after download the latest version , double click on the plugin- make sure the name is fingscan. not fingscan-2 (if you download twice it will add a -2 to the name)
2. open fingscan configuration and enter
- the MAC password
- the network e.g. 192.168.1.0
- the size of the network range (normally 8 bit = 0...255)
- if you like change the name of the device and or variable folder where the generated device / variables will be created.
- set sleep time between probs (sleep between loops) >=2 seconds , shorter times create a faster response but also will tax the system more
- set enable ping in-between fingscan to off for the time being. this parameter help detecting devices (mostly for hard wired devices) if they are going down.
-save
3. then fingscan should start creating one device and one variable for each IP device on your network. they should look like:
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4. you then could edit / configure each device individually and set some parameters:
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- the first 2 are just text, ,
- the third wifi/ ethernet is used if you use an ASUS router to set priorities for determining up/down status.
- the fourth (ping) can be used to overwrite the global setting in config to use ping to detect "down" status for this specific device.
- the last "show MSG" is used to suppress messages if your device constantly changes its IP number . This is for e.g. apple tv that can have 2 IP numbers.


HOW IT WORKS:
fingscan will use FING and other tools to determine the status of IP devices on your network. FING will listen to any broadcast on the network and also will ping each device (once a minute) and can check if a device is online by testing individual ports for each device (this is a manual feature in menus)
An indigo device is created and its set to UP status if a device sends broadcasts and or answers pings.
if a device does not send any broadcasts and does not answer pings it will be set to down and later to expired (set timing in config)
The MAC # of the devices are used as THE key for each device. The IP number is an attribute as it can change.

In addition you can setup events in the menu. This allows to group several devices into a group. You then can setup an indigo trigger for: all devices of this group are home/ away or one is away or one is home You can setup the trigger using the plugin event or one of the variables created for each event type.. If you have other plugins you can add those devices to devices from those plugins to the groups if you like.

In addition for each device a variable is created. This info is redundant to the device info. You can choose which to use. Variables give a nice one page overview of all devices.

In the menu you can also run some reports that will create formatted reports of your devices - which ports are open vendors etc.


Karl
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