Passive Real-time Asset Detection System

PRADS employs digital fingerprints to recognize services on the wire, and can be used to map your network and monitor for changes in real time.

PRADS is used to detect computers in your internal networks, it is used to fill the host database in Artica.
This feature is available in Artica v4.30 Service Pack 111

Installing PRADS

Go into your System/Features
In the search field, type “prads”
Click on install button on the “Passive Real-time Asset Detection System (PRADS)” row.

Choose the network interface

A new sub-menu menu “Passive detection” is added under Network menu.
Click on this menu and choose the correct listen interface of your local network.

New discovered computers.

My Computers

The scanner try to find the MAC address of your computers, if MAC Address is available Artica will populate its host database automatically.

Under DNS / Your computers you will find new discovered computers

PRADS report

The PRADS report show you the detected addresses in a table, this table handle the total of detected nodes.

By clicking on the IP address, the Artica Web console displays the history of the discovered address task and the detected port list.