Overlook Fing 3.0

Overlook Fing is a powerful tool for network discovery, scanning, and monitoring. It's a cross-platform application that can be used from mobile devices, both Android and iOS powered ones, as well as from Windows, OS X, and Linux computers, or even from Raspberry Pi ones.

The Windows version comes as a command-line tool, with no actual graphic user interface, and that's quite surprising and intriguing to me, as Overlook Fing is not an overly simplistic tool that comes with a small amount of features. On the contrary, it's pretty powerful and comprehensive. It can accurately detect the devices and other data about a specific network, scan and list the active services (including common ones like DNS, HTTP, FTP), check the Internet access, perform ping and traceroute commands, measure the performance of the network by counting the time that it takes for sent packets to reach a destination, and last but not least, remotely wake up network devices using the typical Wake-On-LAN feature. Since it's a command-line utility, for performing any of these aforementioned tasks, which are rather intricate, you need to go through smaller steps and configure every little aspect of that process by answering short command-line inquiries. That could take some time and might confuse some beginners.

Anyway, Fing is an undeniably handy tool for any network admin and not only. It's a powerful network toolkit that gets its job done in an accurate and effective manner.