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Collecting Available WiFi info?

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mmuni

Has anyone attempted to try and collect info like available wifi SSID's from each computer? I do monthly scans for new or rogue WiFi access points and thought it would be great if I could just come up with some way to use PDQ to run a WiFi scan on all my machines with wireless cards and then view all the results centrally.

It would be nice if this was included with the inventory scans but currently it is not being collected.

 

Does anyone already have a script they are using to dump wifi info to csv? or something similar. I'm thinking I can just make a script that scans for available wifi and dumps the output to a central csv file on a network share. would be great if someone is doing this already so I don't have to start from scratch.

 

My main goal would be to simply deploy the script out to all computers and have them record the wifi data and I could then review it for anything new or generate a report that lists anything new. This would save me  the time of walking around all of our buildings with a laptop to perform a wifi survey.

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    Marcel Lipovsky

    Hi, there is no script at the moment, but you can try to write one while using some of the tools from Nir Sofer. Like http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wifi_information_view.html or http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wifi_history_view.html

    All his tools are able to export the data to CSV, which you can store on a server share and analyze there.

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    mmuni

    Thanks SelfMan, I just had success with Wifi Info View. I made a package that runs the wifiinfoview.exe with parameters that tell it to perform two wifi scans and save the data to a network share with the filename set to the computer that performed the scan. So after the package is deployed out to all my machines I have a network share full of .csv files (one from each machine) I then have one simple command that merges them all to one master .csv file.

    Example (Copy *.csv Master.csv)

     

    End result is one master.csv full of wifi scan data from all my machines. (No more walking the entire campus for wifi surveys)

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    Marcel Lipovsky

    That was the main Idea of the script ;-)

    Congratz to the successfull implementation.

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