Ntopng How to install Ntopng Network Traffic Monitoring Tool

Ntopng is a very useful network traffic monitoring system, its a monitoring tool with detailed graphs and  flows. Its interface having a number of view options of network traffic, including the top flow talkers, top hosts (Send/Receive) data, application protocols in use, top flow senders data live. Each and every node’s active flow can be viewed using the ntopng.

For reference www.ntop.org.

To Install Ntopng, the following steps are followed, first of all we need to upgrade the repository files, create the following file to start up for installation:

# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/ntop.repo

[ntop]
name=ntop packages
baseurl=http://www.nmon.net/centos/6.5/x86_64/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://www.nmon.net/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-deri

Now create the file in “/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo extra repositories”

# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo

[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 -
baseurl=http://mirror.digmia.com/epel/6Server/x86_64/
#mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6

[epel-debuginfo]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 -  - Debug
baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6//debug
#mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-debug-6&arch=
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
gpgcheck=1

[epel-source]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 -  - Source
baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/SRPMS
#mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-source-6&arch=
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
gpgcheck=1

Now do the following:
To clean all yum data

yum clean all

To update the repositories and all installed packages following command is used.

yum update -y

Redis and Hiredis are the required packages for the Ntopng installation, so need to install it before going to install ntopng

yum install redis hiredis

if there will be problem for installation of redis or hiredis, do install the following rpm:

rpm -ivh http://mirror.digmia.com/epel/6Server/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Now install the pf_ring

yum install pfring

after successful installation of all the above mentioned packages, install ntopng with its packages

yum install ntopng ntopng-data nbox

Now edit the ntopng configuration file and make the following changes.

vi /etc/ntopng/ntopng.conf 

-n=1
-g=-1
-G=/var/tmp/ntopng.pid
-i=eth0
-i=eth1

Now edit the ntopng start “ntopng.start” file and make following changes.

vi /etc/ntopng/start.conf

--local-networks 192.168.0.0 ## give your local IP Ranges here.
--interface 0

Now run the following commands to start the services of redis and ntopng.

service redis start 
service ntopng start

Al Hamdu Lillah we have done it.
The Following graphs will be displayed on completion of installation process and configuration of ntopng.