Ntop configuration notes under CentOS 6.3

System Environment: CentOS6.3 x64

NTOP: ntop-5.0.1

Rrdtool: rpmforge Source

Libpcap: rpmforge Source

NTOP is a network traffic monitoring tool that comes with a web management interface to monitor Intranet traffic in LINUX sites. It can be installed on the gateway or bridge between the gateway and the access layer switch as a sniffer, which can be understood as an enhanced sniffer.

1. Install a 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 the dependency package

# Yum install libtool automake autoconf m4 make gcc-c ++ gdbm-devel zlib-devel openssl-devel python-devel GeoIP-devel-y

3. Install libpcap

# Yum install libpcap-devel-y

4. Install rrdtool

# Yum install 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. Create ntop users and groups

# Groupadd ntop

# Useradd ntop-g ntop

6. Configure ntop User Permissions

The ntop home directory is/usr/local/share/ntop by default.

# 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. log on to ntop in the browser (username/password: admin/admin)

Http: // 192.168.7.73: 3000

Change Password:

Admin-Configure-Web Users-change admin User Password

10. Set auto-start upon startup

# Vi/etc/rc. local

Add the last line:

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/Usr/local/bin/ntop-u ntop-d

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11. View logs:

# Tail-f/var/log/messages