Installation and configuration of Ntop network monitoring in CentOS

Ntop is a network traffic monitoring tool that uses ntop to display network usage in a more intuitive and detailed manner than other network management software. Ntop can even list the network bandwidth utilization of each node computer. I. system environment CentOS6.X series Ntop4.1.0 II. install the 2.1Linux system before installation. select Basicservices for installation; 2.2 configure network information, disable SELinux and iptables; 2.3 install basic common tools and commands: yum-

Ntop is a network traffic monitoring tool that uses ntop to display network usage in a more intuitive and detailed manner than other network management software. Ntop can even list the network bandwidth utilization of each node computer.

I. system environment

CentOS6.X series

Ntop4.1.0

2. preparations before installation

2.1 install Basic services in Linux;

2.2 configure network information and disable SELinux and iptables;

2.3 install basic common tools and commands:

Yum-y install yum-plugin * telnet nmap lrzsz

2.4 install the development libraries and software required by Ntop:

Yum-y install libtool

Yum-y install libpcap-devel

Yum-y install zlib-devel

Yum-y install rrdtool *

Note: after these libraries and software are installed on my system, you can. Different systems may need more software packages. when Ntop is compiled, you will be prompted to install the missing yum directly;

3. install GeoIP

GeoIP is used to locate the geographical longitude and latitude of a visitor, country/region, province/city, or even street.

Wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/c/GeoIP.tar.gz

Tar xzvf GeoIP.tar.gz

Cd GeoIP-1.4.8

./Configure -- prefix =/usr/local/GeoIP

Make

Make install

4. install and configure Ntop

Wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/ntop/ntop/Prior%20Stable/ntop-4.1.0.tar.gz

Tar xzvf ntop-4.1.0.tar.gz

Cd ntop-4.1.0