Currently the app supports routers that send syslog data, but they do require some fields that will help populate the dashboards. Since I made this app to be CIM compliant, I can do some field aliases to conform and thus help populate the dashboards. Here are some of the vendors that should work with the app:
NetGear
Juniper
Asus
Linksys
pfSense
mikro
sophos
fios MI424WR
You will need to make sure that your router can send syslog data, not all routers from the vendors listed above do so. Just make sure before you buy one.
I will admit that I personally started using a pfsense firewall and just use the wireless router as an AP without the firewall enabled. This is why I've been doing more development around the pfsense firewalls data feeds.
Lastly, sending the data from your device to a syslog server is a good idea but if you have a small lab network and you don't want another device I would recommend just sending the data directly into your Splunk indexer. (Not the best practice for a large deployment, but should be OK for a small environment.) You can also setup a raspberrypi and have it run the Splunkforwarder on it : http://blogs.splunk.com/2013/10/11/introducing-the-splunk-universal-forwarder-for-raspberry-pi/ The only catch with this is that the SD card does have a lifespan on writes, so if you do a ton of syslog, it will eventually kill a cheap SD card. (Yes, I found out the hard way.)
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