nProbe is an efficient netflow/IPFIX probe that can also act as a collector dumpling flows on disk or onto a database (MySQL, sqlite and Fastbit). As ntop has not been designed to operate on large/fast networks, it’s possible to use nProbe as pre-processor. In this configuration, nProbe captures packets from a network interface (or collects […]
Twelve years of ntop
The Internet is pretty volatile. As new information become available, the old one disappears. Sometimes we have to look back and see what’s happened in the past years. Shall you be interested in seeing how ntop changed in the past twelve years, you can have a look at this URL, that has several snapshots of […]
ntop on Ubuntu
The ubuntu community has published a post that explains how to compile/use ntop on Ubuntu. This is the URL of the post.
Creating 3D Maps using ntop
Since some time ntop support geolocation. Now courtesy of Ronald W. Henderson it can also display mercator maps and natively integrate with tools such as Google Earth. These ntop extensions are part of the NST (Network Security Toolkit) toolkit. For more information please visit the NST Wiki page.
Interview with Luca Deri
In this video Luca presents the ntop project and gives an outlook of future activities. It was presented during the OSS conference that took place last May in Bolzano. Finally this short interview gives an idea of how ntop can benefit when integrated with commercial applications and vendors such as Würth-Phoenix.
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 @ Bolzano (May 20th): Conference on Nagios, NTOP @ OSS Monitoring featuring Ethan Galstad an Luca Deri
Following the great interest in 2009, the successful series of an international Conferences on Nagios, NTOP and OSS Monitoring will continue also in 2010. Therefore the organization team of Würth Phoenix spared no efforts to top last year’s agenda and bring international Nagios and OSS Monitoring experts to Bolzano/Italy. This way, next to Nagios founder […]
IANA Assigned a PEN to ntop
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has assigned to ntop the 35632 PEN (Private Enterprise Number) number. This means for instance that nProbe extensions (e.g. HTTP and VoIP traffic monitoring) will be exported using IPFIX using a valid template that will be recognized by all flow collectors available in the market. A side effect is that […]
ZDNet.de: ntop: ein bedeutsames Tool fuer die Netzwerkanalyse
ZDNet.de speaks about ntop.
ntop.org Accredited as Endace Technology Partner
We’re proud to announce that ntop.org has been accredited as Endace technology partner as recognition for ntop contribution in the open-source world and also as guarantee for Endace customers that products such as ntop and nProbe run smoothly (and faster) on Endace DAG cards.