Ali Jawad's Portal Site

Assumptions:

1. Debian System "Or any other linux system"
2. Apache installed
3. OpenSSL for  SSL  support
4. Basic  knowledge in  linux

• First  Step "Installing NTOP"
  

Exexute the following commands:

1. apt-get update
2. apt-get install ntop
3. apt-get install openssl
4. ntop --set-admin-password=your-password
   

1. Second Step "Starting & Accessing NTOP"

Execute the the following command "change the arguments respectively"

• ntop -d -u ntop -i eth0,eth1 -w 3000 --w3c
  
• ntop is started as a daemon -d
  
• ntop is started as user ntop -u
  
• ntop is listening to nics eth0 and eth1 -i
  
• ntop is listening to port 3000 -w
  
• ntop is using --w3c this produces a slightly better display
  
• For SSL execute -W 3000 -w 0 instead of -w 3000

To access ntop simply execute http://yourserver:3000 or https://yourserver:3000 . This depends upon your ip, the port you chose and wether you chose ssl support or not.

To stop,start or restart ntop execute:

1. /etc/init.d/ntop stop
2. /etc/init.d/ntop start
3. /etc/init.d/restart

Finally, the only thing left to do is securing your ntop installation in case you want to access it from the internet. Not securing ntop, can allow hackers or intruders to gain insight into your network and they can obtain valuable information about your computers.

• Access your ntop installation using your favourite browser
• Go To Admin
• Go to URL
• Choose the URLs you want to restrict, my advice is to restrict the root directory "/" this will secure the whole ntop installation
• If you want other users to access ntop, go to admin ->  users and add the respective users.

For more info go to :

http://www.ntopsupport.com/faq.html

http://www.ntop.org 

Only registered users can write comments.
Please login or register.

Powered by AkoComment 2.0!