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March 22, 2020, 9:38 p.m.

Installation of ntop-ng

ntop - High-speed web-based traffic analysis.

Installation method:

Using the stable package (not bleeding edge release):

$ sudo apt install ntopng


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  libjs-rickshaw libndpi2.6 lua-bitop lua-cjson node-html5shiv ntopng-data redis-server redis-tools
Suggested packages:
  geoip-database-contrib ruby-redis
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  fonts-font-awesome libhiredis0.14 libjemalloc2 libjs-d3 libjs-jquery-form libjs-jquery-metadata libjs-jquery-tablesorter
  libjs-rickshaw libndpi2.6 lua-bitop lua-cjson node-html5shiv ntopng ntopng-data redis-server redis-tools
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Using the stable from the official ntop package:
Instructions can be found at http://packages.ntop.org/apt-stable/

Visit http://localhost:3000, login as admin for the username and password.
ntop can be a resource hog, you can run out of RAM depending on the number of interfaces that you are monitoring. I would suggest that you edit the file: /etc/ntopng.conf and add only the interfaces that you need to monitor.

$ sudo nano /etc/ntopng.conf


# This configuration file is similar to the command line, with the exception
# that an equal sign '=' must be used between key and value. Example: -i=p1p2
# or --interface=p1p2 For options with no value (e.g. -v) the equal is also
# necessary. Example: "-v=" must be used.
#
# DO NOT REMOVE the following option, required for daemonization.
-e=

# * Interfaces to sniff on: one interface per line, prefix with -i=
# E.g.
-i=eth0
-i=wlan0
# If none is specified, ntopng will try to auto-detect the best interface.
#
# * Port on which ntopng will listen for the web-UI.
-w=3000



For some reason, apt does not detect the newer ntopng package from ntopng.org. I will be reporting this as a bug.