Net-Mon vs pyndiff

Net-Mon

Get notified for new devices on your network (by RafhaanShah)

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pyndiff

Generate human-readable ndiff output when comparing 2 Nmap XML scan files (by rackerlabs)

Python Nmap ndiff XML Compare Scans

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Net-Mon		pyndiff
	Project
2	Mentions	3
26	Stars	26
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
about 2 years ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Net-Mon

Posts with mentions or reviews of Net-Mon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-09.

Fing.io Network Monitoring alternative?
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 9 Jan 2022

Net-Mon does exactly this
Continuous network enumeration tool like Fing
6 projects | /r/selfhosted | 2 Jul 2021

One option is Net-Mon which doesn't have a UI but just sends you notifications whenever a new device is detected

pyndiff

Posts with mentions or reviews of pyndiff. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-02.

Continuous network enumeration tool like Fing
6 projects | /r/selfhosted | 2 Jul 2021

It can optionally utilize the pyndiff (https://github.com/rackerlabs/pyndiff/) library to email you the difference in port scans, e.g. this port was closed yesterday, now it's open.
pyndiff: Generate human-readable ndiff output when comparing 2 Nmap XML scan files
1 project | /r/netsec | 23 Feb 2021
Generate human-readable ndiff output when comparing 2 NMAP XML scan files
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Feb 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Net-Mon and pyndiff you can also consider the following projects:

scantron - A distributed nmap / masscan scanning framework complete with scan scheduling, engine pooling, subsequent scan port diff-ing, and an API client for automation workflows.

Scanz - A fast and powerful ARP based network scanner

WebMap - WebMap-Nmap Web Dashboard and Reporting

natlas - Scaling Network Scanning. Changes prior to 1.0 may cause difficult to avoid backwards incompatibilities. You've been warned.

WebMap - Nmap Web Interface including XML parsing, maps and reports

netbox-scanner - A scanner util for NetBox

IVRE - Network recon framework. Build your own, self-hosted and fully-controlled alternatives to Shodan / ZoomEye / Censys and GreyNoise, run your Passive DNS service, collect and analyse network intelligence from your sensors, and much more! Uses Nmap, Masscan, Zeek, p0f, etc.

Pi.Alert - WIFI / LAN intruder detector. Check the devices connected and alert you with unknown devices. It also warns of the disconnection of "always connected" devices