May 17th 2010 Press Release Plixer International, Inc., a leading global provider of network traffic monitoring and analysis tools, today announced that it has partnered with NTOP of Italy to launch Scrutinizer 7.7 with nProbe™ support for advanced flow-based monitoring to analyze client, server and application latency. If the flow involves HTTP, the URL information […]
Extending ntop using Python
ntop was designed to be self-contained in order to avoid people configuration and usage headache. Unfortunately the drawback is that extending ntop has always been a difficult activity as users had to code in C and know ntop’s internals. Recently thanks to the integration of ntop with Python, it is possible to script the application […]
Meet ntop @ Florence (May 9th): Opening-up ntop using Python
Pycon Conference Florence, May 7-9 2010 ntop (https://www.ntop.org) is an open-source project aimed at monitoring network traffic. Recently, in order to make the tool even more flexible than before this for letting people adapt it to their needs, the python interpreter has been embedded into ntop. The result is that users can now use python […]
Meet ntop @ Zürich (June 23rd): Large-scale Flow Monitoring Through Open Source Software
AIMS 2010 Conference Tutorial Zürich, June 21-25, 2010 Large and high-speed networks produce a large number of flows that need to be collected and analyzed. Most collectors are unable to keep up with the flow export rate, and also have severe speed limitations when creating reports, due to the amount of data that needs to […]
10 Gbit PF_RING-based Hardware Packet Filtering and Balancing Previewed at the Intel Europe Conference
Intel Research Europe Conference, Bruxelles, May 4th 2010 Luca Deri and Joseph Gasparakis, senior Intel engineer, have previewed a new PF_RING-based technology they have co-developed that allows Linux users to fully exploit the hardware capabilities of the newest Intel X520 10 Gbit adapter (based on Intel 82599 controller). This technology that is close to public […]