Mylg - A Command Line Network Monitoring Tool for Linux Systems

In this article we will show how to install and use the network monitoring software called My Looking Glass, or mylg. It is fairly early in mylg development but it already supports lots of great features like for example packet analyzer, web dashboard, port scanning and many more. We will install it on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

What mylg can diagnose in network

1) Real time trace route (support IPv4 and IPv6 networks) 2) Dig command enhanced 3) TCP/IP packet analyzer 4) Enhanced HTTP Ping and Dump 5) Port scanning commands 6) Peer information 7) Network LAN Discovery 8) Collect ASN, IP/CIDR information 9) DNS lookup information