Vyatta Real-Time Network Stats

first-priority · Active Member Joined: 04 May 2008 Posts: 30

Real-Time Network Stats Tool

How to install [Jul 27]

pirateghost · Super User Joined: 10 Mar 2009 Posts: 202

allow me to be the first to say thank you. if you have any more tips like this one or the fwanalog, please keep them coming. i would love to see a howto section supported by the community for items like these.

mlovall723 · Forum Newbie Joined: 21 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

what repository are you using?

first-priority · Active Member Joined: 04 May 2008 Posts: 30

Make sure aptitude update command install before!

ubcadmin · Active Member Joined: 06 Oct 2008 Posts: 30

Installed ntop with no problems. Very Happy

Thanks for the how-to!

dorient · Forum Veteran Joined: 13 Feb 2009 Posts: 103

Hi first-priority,

Thanks for the awesome simple and quick how-to! Got it working in under 5 minutes...

What about installing ntop on a remote station and pulling data from Vyatta?

Thanks,
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Reece · Forum Newbie Joined: 05 Nov 2009 Posts: 3

Thanks it works perfectly.

This may be a stupid question, but how do I get it to start on boot? We run a mostly windows shop here so I don't deal with Linux as much.

Thanks.
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wdingus · Forum Newbie Joined: 02 Jul 2008 Posts: 7

A big thank you for this! Very handy for finding mis-configured PCs, malware-infested PCs, etc...

The "Local Network Traffic Map" option reports this:
Missing dot tool (expected /usr/bin/dot). Please set its path (key dot.path) here.

I can't seem to install that with apt. I tried packages named both "dot" and "graphviz" to no avail. Thoughts?

Thanks...

Reece · Forum Newbie Joined: 05 Nov 2009 Posts: 3

I did figure out how to make the program run on boot with the rc.local file. Thanks to Vyatta for that doc. It should be noted that ntop only starts with root powers and then hands off to a user with less privileges. Now I don't know enough about linux users to give ntop user enough privileges to have root powers.

So if you have multiple interfaces the way I found to do it was ntop -M -u root -d

If you start ntop with that command it turns off interface merging with -M and -u specifies the user and so i put root there because -M will still only see eth0 without the -u root in there. Finally -d will send the app to the background so you can continue using the shell. So in rc.local i have it setup to boot that way and so I can see my 5 interfaces.

Great app for traffic tracking.
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Reece Savage
Information Technology Manager
King & Ballow Law Offices
315 Union Street
Suite 1100
Nashville, TN 37201
Phone (615) 726-5525
Fax (615) 254-7907
rsavage@kingballow.com