Month Archives: June 2014

ntopng

Creating a hierarchical cluster of ntopng instances

As you know via ZMQ you can use ntopng as collector for nProbe instances. You can decide to merge all probes into one single ntopng interface (i.e. all the traffic will be merged and mixed) or to have an interface per probe. Example: Start the remote nProbe instances as follows [host1] nprobe --zmq "tcp://*:5556" -i ethX [host2] nprobe --zmq "tcp://*:5556" -i ethX [host3] nprobe --zmq "tcp://*:5556" -i ethX [host4] nprobe --zmq "tcp://*:5556" -i ethX If you want to merge all nProbe traffic into a single ntopng interface do: ntopng -i tcp://host1:5556,tcp://host2:5556,tcp://host3:5556,tcp://host4:5556 If you want to …
n2disk

Visualising n2disk Captured Traffic using CloudShark

Introduction ntop users are familiar with n2disk and the nBox web interface that ease its use. As you know, the nBox includes a small web-based tool that allows you to preview pcap contents.  This tool is good for having an idea of what a pcap contains but it not a fully fledged application. On the other hand CloudShark is the leading application for analysing traffic traces, and thus we have decided to leverage on it for offering the cheapest and most powerful solution for traffic-to-disk and pcap visualisation on the cloud. …