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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2018
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Jie Jiang, San Jose, CA (US);
Vishal S. Desai, San Jose, CA (US);
Kasi Nalamalapu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Manoj Gupta, Santa Clarita, CA (US);
Ramadhasan Thangachamy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Venkatesh Kanagasabapathy, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, computer program product, and method relating to identifying and configuring an access point (AP) as a network sniffer. A network controller identifies a plurality of sniffer targets for which at least one of a plurality of sniffer candidate access points an act as a network sniffer. The controller receives a desired sniffer target. The controller selects a first AP, of the plurality of sniffer candidate APs, for use as a network sniffer, based on the identified plurality of sniffer targets and the desired sniffer target. The controller configures a radio in the first AP as a network sniffer to monitor network traffic related to the desired sniffer target.