Network Scanner scans all interfaces availble and pings on all possible ip addresses to find whether a device is active on that particular ip address.
It retrieves mac address from arp table and finds manufacturer of the device using mac address.
It uses redis to store device nick names for mac addr and retrieves device nick name. If device is observed for the first time you are allowed to add nick name for that particular device.
Install Python3 on your computer
Install Flask using
pip3 install flask
set export FLASK_APP=main.py as environment variable
install all packages mentioned in requirements.txt using pip3 install requirements.txt
Redis runs on port number 6379. If you wanted to run redis docker image use below commands
Create docker volume for persistent storage
`sudo docker volume create netscan`
Run redis container using volumes
`docker container run -d -p 6379:6379 --name redis-netscan --mount source=netscan,destination=/data redis`
run flask application using
`python3 -m flask run`
If you are one any of linux flavour which supports systemd then user netscan.service as unit file to bring python flask application
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Run webpages from html directory to view results in better eye pleasing way
open your browser and enter below url for scanning all devices:
http://127.0.0.1:5000/
other options will be shown on home page
Python3
Flask
Redis