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Network monitoring software
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Hi everybody.
I need a software to let me monitor network usage by "application" at the very first step. I took a look at wireshark but it doesn't seem to simply tell me the application name.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
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Likewise, this will give you lots of output, but in a terminal:
The lsof command also works with network services, e.g.: just lists currently running processes that are using IPv4.
TIP: if you know what port something is listening on/talking on, you can look it up in /etc/services and sometimes get a description for that service, according to the IANA anyway.
For gui tools (neither of which i have tried in some time), you can check out Nagios and Cacti. I don't know how app-centric they are, but they're definitely intended to monitor network traffic.
hth