Centos 6.3 ntop Configuration Notes

System environment: Centos6.3 x64

ntop:ntop-5.0.1

Rrdtool:rpmforge Source

Libpcap:rpmforge Source

NTOP is a network traffic monitoring tool with Web management interface, which is used to monitor the intranet traffic in Linux station. It can be installed on the gateway or bridged between gateways and access layer switches as a sniffer that can be understood as a reinforced version of the sniffer.

1. Install third party yum source

# http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

# RPM-IVH rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

2. Install Dependency Pack

# yum Install Libtool automake autoconf M4 make gcc gcc-c++ gdbm gdbm-devel zlib zlib-devel OpenSSL openssl-devel python-d Evel GeoIP Geoip-devel-y

3. Install Libpcap

# yum Install Libpcap libpcap-devel-y

4. Install RRDtool

# yum Install RRDtool rrdtool-devel-y

4. Install ntop

# wget Http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntop/files/ntop/Stable/ntop-5.0.1.tar.gz/download

# TAR-ZXVF Ntop-5.0.1.tar.gz

# CD ntop-5.0.1

#./autogen.sh

# Make && make install

5. Establish NTOP Users and groups

# Groupadd NTOP

# Useradd Ntop-g ntop

6. Configure NTOP User Rights

NTOP's home directory defaults to/usr/local/share/ntop

# Chown-r Ntop:ntop/usr/local/share/ntop

7. Create the RRD directory used by ntop

# MKDIR/USR/LOCAL/VAR/NTOP/RRD

# Chown-r NTOP:NTOP/USR/LOCAL/VAR/NTOP/RRD

8. Start ntop

# ntop-u Ntop-d

9. Login ntop in browser (username/password: admin/admin)

http://192.168.7.73:3000