Last month Ivan Pepelnjak interviewed me on Software Gone Wild about ntop and ntopng. The main topic of the interview were: How it all started and why did Luca decide to start the ntop (and PF_RING) project? What is ntopng (next-generation ntop) and why did they rewrite the product? What are nprobe and nbox? The […]
Introducing ntopng 1.2
ntopng 1.2 is the result of 10 months of work. We have tried to both introduce new features, and make the product more robust, easy to use, and modern. The result is a simple tool with a refreshed GUI, user preferences, and new reports to display data in new ways. Leveraging on the multi-interface support, […]
Mini-Tutorial: Fresh Install of ntopng on Centos 7
IMPORTANT: This post contains outdated information. See README.compilation for updated instructions. This is how to compile ntopng in a fresh centos 7 x64 installation For the impatient: # yum install -y subversion autoconf automake make gcc libpcap-devel libxml2-devel sqlite-devel libtool glib2-devel gcc-c++ $ svn co https://svn.ntop.org/svn/ntop/trunk/ntopng $ ./autogen.sh $ ./configure $ make $ ./ntopng –help ntopng […]
Monitoring Mobile Traffic (3G/LTE) with nProbe and ntopng #sharkfest14
At Sharkfest 2014 we have made a presentation/tutorial about mobile traffic monitoring using the ntop tools. Those who have not attended the conference can still have a chance to look at the presentation.
Running nProbe and ntopng on Ubiquity EdgeRouter Lite
On this blog we have already discussed on how to compile and run ntopng and nProbe on a BeagleBoard and Raspberry Pi. Now we explain (courtesy of Shane Graham) how to achieve the same on a Ubiquity EdgeRouter Lite, a cheap yet powerful router. First, setup the proper Debian repository: configure set system package repository squeeze components […]
Upcoming ntop meetings: Nürnberg, Luxembourg, Pisa, Milano.
Next week is going to be a busy week for us as we’ll (Luca and Alfredo) be make a short tour in Europe to present ntopng and the latest ntop apps. October 23rd, Open Source Network Conference, Nürnberg, Germany. October 24-25th, Hack.Lu and Suricata Team, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. October 26th, Linux Day 2013, Pisa, Italy. October 29th, […]
It’s time for a completely new ntop. Say hello to ntopng.
15 years are past since the first version of ntop. In 1998 network monitoring requirements were very different from today: few protocols (mostly in plain text) to monitor, IP was not yet “the only protocol”, low network speed, very few connected hosts, no iPhones yet, raspberry was still a fruit, Linux was still for geeks. […]
How to build yourself a nBox Probe and Packet Recorder
If you need a network probe or a packet recorder you have two options. Grab a turn-key nBox or built it yourself using our software. In the first case you will receive a optimised system, with the right motherboard/CPU/NIC for your monitoring tasks and all software preinstalled/configured. However if you want to build yourself your nBox […]
Introducing nBox 2.0 (aka how to use/configure ntop apps using a web GUI)
Years ago we decided to create the nBox appliance as turn-key solution for those that were not fans of the command line. Then we decided to rewrite the nBox GUI to make it simpler, more modern, and usable by all ntop users, to configure ntop, nProbe, n2disk, PF_RING and DNA. In essence we have […]
Monitoring on the MicroCloud
When I started to develop ntop in 1998, it was clear to me that the network was a huge, volatile (or semi-persistent if you wish), constantly changing database. In ntop this database is implemented in memory, where for each received packet, ntop updates the hosts, protocols, sessions, packet size….. tables. The web interface is yet […]