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11 Must Have Apps – IT Network Tools for Your iOS Apple and Android Device

A collection of the most highly rated apps to help IT pros monitor, administrate and control the network from your Android or Apple iOS device.

May 8, 2013 TD Staff Leave a Comment

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iPRTG
beyond content GmbH
Cost: $11.99
Rating: 4+
Requirements: iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later

Network administrators using PRTG Network Monitor software from Passler AG can ow access their network using the iPRTG mobile app. The app allows users to monitor and administrate their network from their iOS device. Using this app, administrators can view their entire network environment regardless if they are on-site or not. This app covers the all of the network management features offered by the physical software.

Monitoring Features:

  • Up-/downtime
  • Traffic / usage
  • SNMP
  • NetFlow
  • Packet sniffing
  • Direct access to the PRTG web interface’s reporting and analysis functions
  • Zoomable charts for the last 48 hours, 30 days, and 365 days

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Fing
Overlook
Cost: Free
Rating: 4.8
Requirements: Android 2.1 and up

Fing allows users to view their entire network from their Android dewvice. Using this app, customers are able to discover new networks and observe how their current networks are running.

Features:

  • network discovery
  • service scan (TCP port scan)
  • ping
  • traceroute
  • DNS lookup
  • Wake on LAN
  • Fingbox (sync, backup, merge, monitor, notifications)
  • TCP connection tester
  • MAC address and vendor gathering
  • customizable host names and icons
  • connectivity detection
  • geolocation
  • Integrated launch of third-party Apps for SSH, Telnet, FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SCP, HTTP, HTTPS, SAMBA

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NetTools
Terminal Software
Cost: $3.99
Rating: 4+
Requirements: iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1 or later

The NetTools app for iOS gives customers the ability to view and manage their network using three different network tools. The tools, DNS look up, Ping and Traceroute, over 3G, WiFi asnd edge, offering users the ability to gain network access from pretty much anywhere. Using the Ping tool, users can view the latency or roundtrip time between their iPhone and server using an ICMP ping. Traceroute allows users to view the paths their data takes when traveling to the final destination (ie multiple routers and servers). This feature is ideal fro trouble shooting networks, seeing where data is misdirected, lost or dropped—especially when searching for network bottlenecks.

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Speedtest.net
Ookla
Cost: Free
Rating: 4.5
Requirements: Android 1.6 and up

Speedtest.net, the professionally recommended network testing app for Android, takes 30 seconds to produce an accurate network speed test using a network Ping. The app is useful for gauging upload and download times, as well as ping. Plus, this app offers users the ability to troubleshoot their network connection guaranteeing them the ability to ensure that they have access to the speed they are expecting.

Features

  • Discover your Download, Upload, and Ping
  • Real-time graphs show connection consistency
  • Troubleshoot or Verify the speeds you were promised
  • Track past tests with detailed reporting
  • Easily share results

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MyRoutersPro for iPad
Edwin Lam
Cost: $3.99
Rating: 4+
Requirements: iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later

MyRouters Pro for iPad is specifically designed for network administrators using Cisco or Juniper routers. With a robust list of features, this app for iOS is meant to turn an iPad into a control pad instead of just a ssh terminal client

Features:

  • support SSH-2 and TELNET access to network objects
  • support VGA-out to external monitor/projector at resolution of 1024x768 for login sessions and log viewing (requires iPad dock connector to VGA adapter)
  • include PING, TRACEROUTE and integrated BROWSER
  • allows access to NON-STANDARD PORTS other than 22 and 23
  • support SSH authentication by passwords or public key
  • allows IMPORT of public and private key pair
  • master password to prohibit invalid access to the app and its data
  • store router credentials with strong encryption for one-touch login
  • configurable to ask for password every time before login to target
  • support up to five concurrent login sessions
  • well-designed user interface to MINIMIZE TYPING when accessing to command line interface
  • provide three command sets for “touch-and-send”
  • command sets can be edited as normal text files (effectively supports unlimited number of “macros”)
  • customized commands can be imported to the command sets by copy-and-paste from other apps, e.g. Mail
  • ad-hoc commands can be entered through a command bar
  • logs of each login session can be saved for subsequent review or sent out through in-app mail function
  • 6 user-selectable fonts (with 3 monospaced), adjustable font sizes and different color themes
  • support portrait and landscape modes
  • Ping and Traceroute are implemented (to run from the iPad) as supplementary tools for troubleshooting
  • support simultaneous pings to multiple targets

  • support reverse DNS lookup in Traceroute
  • include integrated browser for viewing manuals on the Cisco & Juniper web sites (also serves as a “private browser” for web surfing)

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Ping & DNS
Ulf Dittmer
Cost: Free
Rating: 4.4
Requirements: Android 1.5 and up

The Ping & DNS app for Android devices is useful for checking Ping servers, DNS and WHOIS lookup, check HTTP headers, traceroutes. The app also displays network information and diagnostics: Ping a server, DNS lookup (with geographical lookup of IP addresses), reverse DNS lookup, WHOIS queries, inspecting HTTP response headers, trace routes (also with IP address geo lookup), check whether a port is open. This app allows users to save recently used servers/IP addresses for auto-completion. The results can be copied to the clipboard (via long-click on the output text) and sent via email. Numerous options (like using an alternative name server, Ping TTL, Broadcast Ping, HTTPS, HTTP port number, selection of DNS record types to query, etc.) are available through a long-click on the “Go” button.

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Server Admin Remote
Harlekins
Cost: $9.99
Rating: 4+

Requirements: iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.1 or later

The Server Admin Remote app for iOS allows IT directors to monitor OS X services from any location. With the app, users can monitor the live status of Mac OS X Server services, start/stop services and observe the services’ logs (Mac OS X Lion Server, Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server, Mac OS X Leopard Server and Mac OS X Tiger Server).

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IP Tools
Heskja System
Cost: Free
Rating: 4.1
Requirements: Android 1.6 and up

The IP Tools app for Android offers users a variety of features that help manage network speeds and IP address status. Users are able to Ping websites, discover IP address locations and test connection speeds, plus more.

Features

  • Ping a website.
  • Display ping results graphically.
  • Ping local IP.
  • Ping remote IP.
  • Find your external IP.
  • Find your internal IP.
  • Find IP and server country of a website.
  • Geo location of ip or host.
  • Check if website is available.
  • Simple speed-test to measure your connection speed.
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    IP Reference
    J W Phelps Consulting, inc.
    Cost: $2.99
    Rating: 4+


    Requirements: iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later

    IP Reference for iOS allows users to monitor their networks on a level that surpasses a basic IP calculator.

    Features:

    • net/subnet/host calculator
    • IP Info tool that provides a comparison between IP addresses for class, common network segment, host addressing validity.
    • Also a classless subnet listing using network comparison.
    • Ping: User defined payload length and ping count. Supported payload patterns 0x00, 0xff, 0xf0, and random.
    • MAC OUI lookup to determine network device manufacturer. Also, information on MAC multicast conversion.
    • NSLookup for both forward and reverse DNS queries.
    • WHOIS for global domain information.
    • RFC search by RFC number or keyword(s). Note: RFC titles and abstracts are locally stored. Once an RFC’s body is displayed, it is also stored locally. This functionality is for supporting offline searches.
    • TCP socket test. User configurable destination and TCP port number. “Send” will send ASCII text. “Enter” will send text followed by a carriage return.
    • Ports and Protocols search by number or keyword(s). Includes IP protocols, TCP, UDP, and misc ports.
    • Email results: all results except ASCII chart can now be emailed within the app by pressing the email envelope icon next to each results display.

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    FCC Mobile Broadband Test
    Ookla
    Cost: Free
    Rating: 3.6
    Requirements: Android 1.5 and up

    The FCC Mobile Broadband Test allows users to test the quality of the data connection for their mobile device. Adhering to FCC standards, this app gives a reliable report on the quality and speed of all data a mobile device’s data connection. Users can test the upload speed, download speed, and latency of your mobile broadband connection.

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    IT Tools
    Kevin Koltzau
    Cost: $4.99
    Rating: 4+
    Requirements: iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later

    IT Tools for iOS is an IT professionals toolbox. Includes continuous traceroute, DNS lookup, ping, routing tables, ARP tables, interface statistics, list of active connections and more. IPv6 is fully supported, including reverse DNS.

    Continuous Traceroute

    • Provides details of the network hops to the destination host. Optimized to determine the network path extremely quickly, often in less then 5 seconds. Once the path is determined, it proceeds to continuously ping each hop to provide additional statistics and alternate paths, similar to tools like PathPing and MTR.
    • Configurable start and max TTL, interval and payload size.
    • Choose which interface to use.

    DNS

    • Look up details for most DNS, similar to utilities like dig and nslookup.
    • User supplied DNS server.
    • Choose from 45 supported DNS record types, including A, AAAA, CNAME, LOC, MX, NS, SRV, TXT.
    • Force DNS lookup over TCP to diagnose DNS server issues.
    • View the full DNS response, with headers and the question, answer, authority and additional sections.

    Ping

    • Determine if a host is reachable, and helps determine why it may not be.
    • Configurable TTL, Payload size, and interval.
    • Choose which interface to use.
    • Optional audible sound on errors or when responses arrive
    • If you ping your broadcast address, then look at the ARP table, you can usually get a good idea of what computers are on your network (basic network discovery).

    Whois
    Lookup details about hosts, IP addresses, etc.
    Supports auto detecting the whois server based on the query, as well as using a custom server.

    Route

    Displays your routing table, and route statistics. This is very useful for diagnosing WiFi and VPN configuration issues.

    Interface
    Displays all the network interfaces on your device. You can determine your current WiFi or WWAN IP address, which interfaces are currently active, and various network statistics updated in real time.

    Displays your current WiFi SSID and BSSID under the appropriate interface when running iOS 4.1 or later.

    Active Connections
    List all active sockets (TCP, UDP, etc). Includes all listening server sockets.

    ARP - Address Resolution Protocol

    Displays the current mapping of IP addresses to hardware (MAC) addresses.

    NDP - IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol
    Display the IPv6 routers and nodes that have been discovered
    Supports emailing results of all tools.
    Includes a MAC address database, lookup the manufacturers name and address for any devices on your network.

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    Being able to troubleshoot a faulty network quickly and efficiently is necessity, especially when explanations are needy immediately. However, it is hard to predict when a network will go down, or when an Internet connection will begin to lose strength, which makes it practically impossible to keep an eye on the network without dedicating your entire day to just watching for a fault. Thankfully, app developers have created apps that not only let you respond to trouble spots from any location, but also help you monitor it as well, without having to go further than your pocket to check a report.

    This collection of apps presents eleven useful mobile tools that will accomplish a variety of network tasks with a swipe of the finger. Also included are a few IT toolkits that can accommodate most tasks from connection speed tests to network monitoring. The rest of the apps account for multiple specific network tools. From Ping and DNS reports to mobile apps that mimic network and administration and control software, each app serves a valuable purpose for most IT network troubleshooting and management tasks.

    Each network is unique, some require more care than others. Problems can vary between larger networks and small networks, so it is important to choose a mobile tool that will fit your specific needs.

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