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Monitoring BitTorrent Traffic with ntopng

ntopng has been designed not just for network administrators, but also for small companies and in particular for families. How often you have seen traffic on your network that you did not expect and you asked yourself what was that about. A good example is BitTorrent traffic that can be used for efficiently downloading files and not just for copyright-protected content (unfortunately this is how this protocol is usually perceived by the network community). If you are wondering what your colleagues/children are downloading using BitTorrent, now ntopng can help you. In the latest …
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Ntopng Integration with Nagios

Discontinuation Notice This post becomes obsolete effective with ntopng 4.1+. Full discontinuation notice available here. This tutorial shows how to properly configure nagios and ntopng (Professional) in order to send asynchronous ntopng-generated alerts to nagios. Prerequisites It is assumed that the following software is already installed and properly configured: nagios daemon nagios NSCA (Nagios Service Check Acceptor) daemon ntopng Professional Please see the Resources section at the bottom of this page for useful links and guides on how to set-up nagios and NSCA daemons. Tutorial Set-Up This tutorial uses two hosts connected to …