Sometimes, a critical issue shows up in your network and you’d like to be notified by ntopng on Telegram or by E-Mail. ntopng allows you to filter alerts for each recipient based on a few criteria including alert family, category, severity, or affected hosts. However in some case you want to be notified about a […]
Using Traffic Rules To Supervise Network Traffic
The Problem Let’s assume that you have a Network where local hosts generate a constant amount of traffic. How do you find if they are misbehaving? It happens that some local host starts behaving strangely, by having an abnormal amount of traffic (sent or received) with respect to their recent past: how can you spot […]
What’s New in ntopng: Network Assets
Hello everybody! Welcome back to the weekly blog post of this serie used to update you with the latest ntopng features and graphical changes. Please let us know your feedback! Today we are going to talk about the Asset Map. Have you ever asked yourself, what are the NTP servers in your network? Or, are […]
How enable DPI-based Traffic Management in pfSense using nEdge
We have been receiving several inquiries from pfSense users who would love to complement the classical firewall-style pfSense features with the inline Layer-7-based traffic policing offered by nEdge. Being able place pfSense and nEdge side by side allows to overcome the common belief which sees the bad guys on the Internet and the good guys […]
Exploring Historical Data Using ntopng: Part 2
ntopng is able to deliver monitored traffic flows data to a MySQL server. We have already discussed how to configure ntopng to deliver this data in another blog post. In this article we discuss the new features that allow you to dig deep into the flows dumped to MySQL using the ntopng web GUI. Earlier ntopng […]