WiFi Ninjas 002 - Wireless Professional Tools

Hello and welcome to our second WiFi Ninjas Podcast episode :)
Today we're going to discuss wireless professional tools that we use everyday to deliver our work while having some proper fun while doing it.
Mac has moved to Boughton (outskirts of Northampton) and has some wireless coverage issues at home due to BT box sitting 2 floors below the home office. Sorry for the lower than expected quality while the home production network is being looked at :) Situation should improve in two weeks! Thankfully Matt is sounding as great as ever so we hope it will help with positive reception of this recording :]
Structure of today's episode:
Survey Software Ekahau Site Survey Pro
4P

802.11 WiFi Scanning Tools Scanning wifi (802.11) vs non-wifi (spectrum) - both wireless Ekahau with built in WNICs, dongles or Sidekick
Metageek inSSIDer (with free version now available)
Metageek Eye P.A. (focus on airtime based on captures and tshooting, but also good for basic scanning)
Mobile tools (Aruba Utilities on Android, etc.)
Wireless controllers
Cloud dashboards

Wireless Spectrum Analysis Tools Ekahau with dongles (Wi-Spy DBx)
Ekahau with Sidekick
Cisco AP in SE-connect mode and Cisco Spectrum Expert (free) or MetaGeek Chanalyzer (paid)
Metageek Chanalyzer
Cloud dashboards

Wireless (and wired) Packet Capturing Tools Wireless Cisco AP in sniffer mode
Apple laptop
Windows laptop with dongle and drivers supporting monitoring mode
Savvius Omnipeek with own dongles
MetaGeek Eye P.A. with own dongles
Wireshark with all above
WLANPi (similar to Rasberry Pi) with Comfast dongle - great article by Nigel Bowden
40MHz / 2SS only
Ekahau Sidekick soon

Wired Wired computer with Wireshark
SPAN and RSPAN
In-line passive and active packet capture devices


Wireless Sensors Cisco Aironet Sensor (requires Cisco DNAC)
7 Signal (vendor agnostic)
Others

Other tools Cloud dashboards Tshooting
Intelligence
Historic view

Wireless controllers stats, graphs, client debugs, etc.

Windows CMD: Run 'netsh wlan show wlanreport' in admin CMD and then
Go to 'C:/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/WlanReport/wlan-report-latest.html'
netsh wlan show interfaces (must be associated)

SDA Cisco DNAC
Fabric vs non-fabric
More intelligence plus automation

API Create in house tools

More hardware tools DFS logs captures
Laser tool
Attenuation measure mobile AP (better accuracy)
mobile phone (good enough)

Laptop harness, gun mouse, comfortable shoes, seagway :)


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